Lead Site Reliability & 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 – West Midlands / Remote / £500 – 600 per day. One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to implement Datadog across Azure. Location – West Midlands / Remote - flexible Duration – 6 months + Day rate – Approx £500 – 650 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