James Adams
Site Reliability Engineer
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Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer
West Midlands (hybrid) | 6-month contract
The Opportunity
A global technology business is looking for a Lead SRE / Observability Engineer to build its monitoring and reliability platform from the ground up. There is no existing Datadog setup and little SRE practice today, so this is a true greenfield project. You’ll define the strategy, implement it hands-on and leave the engineering teams with a platform they can rely on.
The goal is simple: catch issues within minutes of a release, before customers notice.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing and implementing Datadog across an Azure and Cloudflare estate
- Building synthetic monitoring for critical APIs, integrations and customer journeys
- Embedding automated release validation into Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines
- Delivering monitoring-as-code and testing-as-code with Terraform
- Creating actionable dashboards, SLOs, SLIs, alerting and anomaly detection
- Leading root-cause analysis and improving reliability and performance across production
- Advising engineering teams and building SRE practices that last beyond the engagement
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What You’ll Bring
- Strong hands-on Datadog experience, ideally including a build from scratch, covering:
- Synthetics
- APM
- RUM
- Log Management
- SLOs and Alerting
- Deep Azure experience and a solid understanding of how a complex estate fits together
- Terraform, ideally including managing Datadog resources as code
- Strong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub
- API, integration and browser-based testing expertise
- Experience with large-scale, cloud-native SaaS platforms, microservices and distributed systems
- A consultative approach and the confidence to set direction, not just take tickets
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Nice to Have
- Cloudflare integration and administration
- Datadog and/or Azure certifications
- SRE or Platform Engineering leadership experience
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