Sre Lead

Haleon

Datadog for observability
Sre principles and patterns
Observability coe charter
This highly strategic role will be responsible for defining, building, and driving the Observability practice across the enterprise, which includes establishing SRE principles, patterns, and governance frameworks with Datadog as the primary observability platform

Job Summary

  • This highly strategic role will be responsible for defining, building, and driving the Observability practice across the enterprise, which includes establishing SRE principles, patterns, and governance frameworks with Datadog as the primary observability platform.
  • Own the enterprise Datadog implementation end-to-end: architecture, integrations, cost optimization, and feature enablement.
  • Define and operationalize a tiered incident severity model with clear escalation paths, SLAs, and communication protocols.

Matching Summary

This highly strategic role will be responsible for defining, building, and driving the Observability practice across the enterprise, which includes establishing SRE principles, patterns, and governance frameworks with Datadog as the primary observability platform.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Datadog for observability
  • SRE principles and patterns
  • Observability COE charter
  • Define error budgets and reliability targets
  • Enterprise Datadog implementation
  • Unified observability stack architecture
  • Tiered incident severity model

Nice-to-have

  • Agile working culture
  • Collaboration across matrixed organizations
  • Modern service management frameworks
  • Exposure to regulated industries

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
  • 3+ years in a leadership capacity
  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Proficiency in automation and configuration management tools
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, and microservices architecture
  • Familiarity with scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, Shell, etc.)
  • Experience with agile/scrum techniques

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