Datadog-Driven SRE: Observability & Reliability Lead

MYO Talent; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 111,000; Part time

Job summary

MYO Talent is seeking a Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer to build and operate a world-class monitoring and reliability platform. You will own the Datadog observability stack, design synthetic monitoring for critical workflows, and drive production validation across distributed SaaS services.

The role requires deep Datadog expertise, Azure and Cloudflare integration experience, and strong CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Datadog expertise across monitoring disciplines.
• Experience delivering observability platforms at scale.
• Proficiency in designing and maintaining synthetic monitoring workflows.
• Proven track record with SRE/Platform Engineering in SaaS environments.
• Expertise integrating monitoring with CI/CD pipelines and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Datadog observability platform.
• Design and maintain synthetic monitoring for critical API and UI workflows.
• Build continuous production validation of customer journeys.
• Integrate monitoring, testing, dashboards, and alerting into Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines.
• Develop monitoring-as-code and testing-as-code using Terraform.

Skills

Synthetic Monitoring

APM

RUM

Log Management

SLOs

Alerting

Distributed systems

Testing

Cloud-native architectures

API testing

Tools

Datadog

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Terraform

Azure

Cloudflare

Job description

MYO Talent is seeking a Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer to build and operate a world-class monitoring and reliability platform. You will own the Datadog observability stack, design synthetic monitoring for critical workflows, and drive production validation across distributed SaaS services.

The role requires deep Datadog expertise, Azure and Cloudflare integration experience, and strong CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub.