Lead Site Reliability and Observability Engineer

Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead / Platform Manager / Observability Engineer / Observability Lead / Architect / Manager / SRE / Datadog / Cloud / Azure / 6-month contract / Hybrid / £500 – 600 per day. One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to implement Datadog in Azure. Location – West Midlands (Solihull/Birmingham) / Remote - flexible Duration – 6 months + Day rate – Approx £500 – 600 per day Inside IR35 This role will lead the implementation of Datadog across Azure and Cloudflare, creating a comprehensive early warning system that continuously validates APIs, integrations, and customer user journeys in production. Key Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the Datadog observability platform.
• Design and maintain synthetic monitoring for critical API and UI workflows.
• Build continuous production validation covering business-critical customer journeys.
• Integrate monitoring, testing, dashboards, and alerting into Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines.
• Develop monitoring-as-code and testing-as-code practices using Terraform.
• Create actionable dashboards, SLOs, SLIs, alerts, and anomaly detection.
• Integrate Datadog with Azure, Cloudflare, and modern SaaS architectures.
• Drive reliability, performance, and root-cause analysis across production systems. Experience:
• Strong hands-on Datadog expertise, including: Synthetic Monitoring, APM, RUM, Log Management, SLOs and Alerting
• Deep Azure experience
• Experience integrating Cloudflare services, Strong CI/CD
• experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, Expertise in API, integration, and browser-based testing, Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform Desirable:
• Datadog certifications
• Azure certifications
• Cloudflare administration experience