Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Kubernetes Platform Experience: 4–8 years Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK About the Role: We are looking for a passionate and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Platform team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters on public cloud environments (AKS, EKS, or GKE) and a strong understanding of modern SRE and DevOps practices. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD systems. Key Responsibilities: • Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or Google GKE). • Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform. • Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and deployment automation. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools. • Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures. • Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages. • Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices. • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes. Required Skills and Experience: • 4–8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles. • Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (AKS/EKS/GKE). • Proficiency with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation. • Practical experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline management. • Sound understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning, error budgets, etc.). • Good programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or similar languages. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for observability. • Exposure to GitOps practices and tools (e.g. Flux).