Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Lead – Datadog

Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead / Observability Engineer / Observability Lead / Manager / SRE / Datadog / Azure / 6-month contract / Hybrid – West Midlands / Remote / £500 – 650 per day. One of our leading clients is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineering Lead to build and operate a world-class monitoring, synthetic testing, and reliability platform. Location – West Midlands / Remote Duration – 6 months + Day rate – £500 – 650 per day 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. Desirable: Datadog certifications. Azure certifications. Cloudflare administration experience. Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering leadership roles.