SRE Engineer

As a preferred supplier to one of our biggest Clients, I am seeking for a  SRE Engineer (Datadog)  for a position in  York (UK).

Key Responsibilities:

Experience:

10+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Dev Ops, or Systems Architecture, with at least 3+ years specializing deeply in Datadog administration and configuration.
Cloud & Container Expertise:  Deep professional experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP, paired with heavy production experience managing Kubernetes clusters.
Instrumentation & Coding:  Proficiency in systems or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript) and experience instrumenting applications for APM.
Datadog Mastery:  Deep understanding of Datadog's core pillars-Infrastructure, APM, Logs, Metrics, Synthetics, and Security Monitoring. Datadog Certifications are a strong plus.
Problem-Solving Mindset:  Demonstrated ability to debug complex, distributed microservices architectures under high-pressure incident response scenarios.
Communication

Skills:

Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical telemetry data into actionable business and engineering insights.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Architecture & Implementation
Platform Ownership:  Design, deploy, and manage Datadog agents, integrations, and custom metrics across multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerized (Kubernetes, Docker) environments.
Observability Pipelines:  Architect and scale high-throughput log processing, routing, and transformation systems using Datadog.
APM & Infrastructure Monitoring:  Configure and optimize Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Distributed Tracing, Real User Monitoring (RUM), and Infrastructure metrics.
Governance & Best Practices
Standardization:  Establish company-wide standards for dashboards, monitors, SLOs/SLIs, and alert routing (integrating with Pager Duty, Jira, Opsgenie, etc.).
Cost & Performance Optimization:  Audit and optimize Datadog usage, index management, log retention policies, and custom metric volume to maximize ROI and control licensing costs.
Security & Compliance:  Leverage Datadog Security products (CSPM, CWPP, Cloud SIEM, Container Security) to maintain compliance postures and mitigate runtime threats.
Collaboration & Enablement
Cross-Functional Mentorship:  Act as the go-to escalation point and technical mentor for Dev Ops, SRE, and Software Engineering teams regarding troubleshooting and instrumentation.
Training & Documentation:  Create internal documentation, runbooks, and training modules to elevate organizational proficiency in observability.
Vendor Management:  Act as the primary technical point of contact for Datadog account teams,

Contract:

6 months+
Rates:  Excellent

Location:

York
Interview:  2 stages, 1 technical + 1 assessment