Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Cloud Kubernetes Platform

Project overview

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.

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 (eg Flux).

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Glassgow, UK, GB