Site Reliability Engineer

ZipRecruiter; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Edinburgh is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their cloud operations. This hybrid role offers a collaborative environment focused on innovation and infrastructure evolution, with a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Medical & Life Insurance

Increased Pension Contribution

Enhanced annual leave

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience in a DevOps or SRE capacity.

Responsibilities

• Shape the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems.
• Enable smooth cloud operations.
• Contribute to product innovation and infrastructure evolution.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Containerisation

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Description

Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid/Onsite)

Salary: Up to £90k + Benefits

Provn are currently engaged on behalf of our client, a forward-thinking technology company based in Edinburgh, known for delivering innovative, scalable solutions across multiple sectors. As part of their continued growth, they are looking to add a skilled Platform Engineer / SRE to their engineering function.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile environment, helping to shape the reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical systems. You’ll play a key role in enabling smooth cloud operations and helping to build the foundations for continued product innovation and infrastructure evolution.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Strong experience working within AWS cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – ideally with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Background in containerisation and orchestration – e.g., Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• Experience working in cross-functional engineering teams, ideally in a DevOps or SRE capacity.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) are beneficial.

What the company can offer:

• Outstanding growth & development opportunities
• The chance to contribute to cloud- product evolution
• A supportive and agile engineering culture
• Salary up to £90k
• Medical & Life Insurance
• Increased Pension Contribution
• Enhanced annual leave
• Bonus scheme

This role is primarily based in Edinburgh with remote working options, although some onsite presence is expected for collaboration and key team activities.

If this aligns with your career goals, please click “apply,” and a member of the Provn team will endeavour to contact you to discuss this position further.

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