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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Strong hands-on Datadog experience across Synthetic Monitoring, APM, RUM, Log Management, SLOs, and alertingDeep Azure experience and experience integrating Cloudflare servicesExperience operating large-scale production environmentsStrong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and GitHubExpertise in API, integration, and browser-based testingTerraform experience and a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservicesA background in SRE or Platform Engineering leadershipDatadog or Azure certifications and Cloudflare administration experience are advantageous Responsibilities: Lead the implementation of Datadog across Azure and CloudflareBuild synthetic monitoring and automated production validation for critical APIs, integrations, and customer journeysOwn and evolve our Datadog observability platformDesign synthetic monitoring for critical API and browser workflowsIntegrate monitoring, testing, and release validation into Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelinesDevelop monitoring-as-code and testing-as-code using TerraformCreate actionable dashboards, SLOs, SLIs, alerts, and anomaly detectionDrive reliability improvements, performance investigations, and root-cause analysis Technologies: APIAzureCI/CDDatadogDevOpsGitHubTerraformmicroservicesCloud More:
Were recruiting a Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer for a contract opportunity based in Birmingham, initially for six months. The rate is up to £575 per day, inside IR35, with hybrid working that includes two days on-site per week. The role focuses on improving observability and production validation so issues can be identified within minutes of a software release.
last updated 41 week of 2026