Site Reliability Engineer

Aerospacelab; Louvain-la-Neuve; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Direct impact on company growth

Fast‑paced environment

Flexible ways of working

Job summary

Aerospacelab in Belgium is seeking an experienced SRE to strengthen service reliability and observability across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will implement SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and automation while collaborating with engineering, security, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes building scalable, fault-tolerant systems, improving performance, and driving best practices in deployment, monitoring, and incident management.

Qualifications

• Master’s, PhD, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Creative problem-solver with strong knowledge of modern reliability, DevOps, and infrastructure technologies.
• Ability to drive improvements, implement process changes, and introduce new tools and automation into the organization.
• Strong organization, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating with a variety of stakeholders across the organization.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and modern security frameworks (e.g., NIST, OWASP).
• Familiarity with SRE methodologies such as observability, automation, performance engineering, system design, and reliability metrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide SRE expertise across relevant projects, contributing to reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Ensure clear and efficient communication between all relevant stakeholders (engineering, security, business teams, etc.).
• Offer SRE guidance and best practices within internal R&D processes when required.
• Continuously expand knowledge, supported by internal resources and learning opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Security, Development, and Operations teams to integrate reliability and observability best practices into the entire service lifecycle.
• Implement SRE principles such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, tooling automation, and proactive reliability improvements.
• Contribute to incident response, on‑call rotation, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation to strengthen production environments.

Skills

Reliability engineering

DevOps

Communication

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Master’s/BSc/BEng in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Linux

Job description

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2026, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 500 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Responsibilities for SRE

• Provide SRE expertise across relevant projects, contributing to reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Ensure clear and efficient communication between all relevant stakeholders (engineering, security, business teams, etc.).
• Offer SRE guidance and best practices within internal R&D processes when required.
• Continuously expand knowledge, supported by internal resources and learning opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Security, Development, and Operations teams to integrate reliability and observability best practices into the entire service lifecycle.
• Implement SRE principles such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, tooling automation, and proactive reliability improvements.
• Contribute to incident response, on‑call rotation, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation to strengthen production environments.

Qualifications for SRE

• Master’s, PhD, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Creative problem‑solver with strong knowledge of modern reliability, DevOps, and infrastructure technologies.
• Ability to drive improvements, implement process changes, and introduce new tools and automation into the organization.
• Strong organization, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating with a variety of stakeholders across the organization.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and modern security frameworks (e.g., NIST, OWASP).
• Familiarity with SRE methodologies such as observability, automation, performance engineering, system design, and reliability metrics.

Technical skills

• Experience with cloud and on‑premise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes; experience with Tanzu is a plus.
• Experience with Docker and containerization.
• Experience with packaging and config (e.g., Helm, Kustomize, etc).
• Experience with Backup/DR for clusters and workloads (e.g., Velero, Kasten, etc).
• Experience with policy as code(e.g., OPA/GateKeeper, Kyverno, etc).
• Experience with Performance and reliability testing is a plus (e.g., k6).
• Understanding and application of GitOps principles and tooling (e.g., declarative configurations, automated reconciliation, and continuous delivery, Flux, ArgoCD, etc).
• Experience with cloud providers (certifications are an asset).
• Knowledge of databases (NoSQL, SQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or C/C++/C# is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, and version control best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Azure Data Factory, AWS Data Pipeline, GCP Dataflow) is a plus.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, load balancing, networking, and storage.
• Experience with monitoring/observability, alerting, logging, and automation tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy, Mimir, Loki, etc).
• Understanding of container security, IAM, and secrets management (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
• Knowledge of French and English.

What we offer

Build your own career path

Direct impact on the growth of the company

Fast-paced environment

Flexible ways of working

Salary package consistent with your experience