Site Reliability Engineer

Blackshark; Toulouse; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aerospacelab in Toulouse seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen reliability, performance, and operational excellence across critical satellite data services.

You will collaborate with Security, Development and Operations teams, implement SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and automation, and contribute to long-term reliability improvements while staying current with evolving cloud and infra technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related field.
• Strong knowledge of reliability, DevOps, and infra tech.
• Ability to drive improvements and automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with secure coding practices and security frameworks.

Responsabilités

• Provide SRE expertise across projects for reliability and performance.
• Communicate with engineering, security, and business teams.
• Offer SRE guidance within R&D processes.
• Expand knowledge via internal resources.
• Collaborate with Security, Development, Operations to integrate observability.
• Implement SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, automation.
• Contribute to incident response, on-call rotation, RCA, remediation.

Connaissances

Reliability engineering

DevOps practices

Communication

Documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Security awareness

Formation

Master’s/Bachelor in CS or related field

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Flux

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Vault

OPA/GateKeeper

Kubernetes Observability

Description du poste

About Aerospacelab

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 350 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.