Site Reliability & Observability Engineer - Datadog / Azure

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

Site Reliability & Observability Engineer / Datadog - Synthetic Monitoring, APM, RUM, Log Management, SLO's, Alerting / Azure / Azure DevOps / Cloudflare / 6-month contract / Hybrid - West Midlands / Remote / £450 - 600 per day Inside IR35.

One of our leading clients is seeking a Lead Site Reliability & Observability Engineer to build and operate a world-class monitoring, synthetic testing, and reliability platform.

Location - West Midlands / Remote - 5 days per week with 1-2 days per week onsite

Duration - 6 months +

Day rate - £450 - 600 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.

Required Experience:

• Strong hands-on Datadog expertise, including:
• Synthetic Monitoring
• APM
• RUM
• Log Management
• SLOs and Alerting
• Experience operating large-scale global SaaS platforms.
• 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.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.

Desirable:

• Datadog certifications.
• Azure certifications.
• Cloudflare administration experience.
• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering leadership roles.