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), DevOps, 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 PagerDuty, Jira, Opsgenie, etc.).
- Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit an

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