Site Reliability Engineer

Aerobotics; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerobotics is seeking a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer to support advanced agricultural technologies. You'll engage in developing tools, enhancing monitoring, and driving innovation within a forward-thinking team, while enjoying competitive benefits and a commitment to personal development.

Benefits

7 weeks’ holiday

Employer pension contribution

Private Health Care

Company sick pay

Income Protection

Life Assurance x 4 of basic salary

Lifestyle & Recognition benefits

Personal development/training funding

Qualifications

• Experience as an embedded engineer within a team, engaging in the broader SRE practice.
• Strong in both software engineering and infrastructure.
• Deep Kubernetes experience is a priority.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain tools that empower software engineers.
• Enhance monitoring suite for reliability across teams.
• Participate in out-of-hours on-call rota.

Skills

Cloud-native development

Software engineering

Infrastructure principles

Monitoring and observability

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

CDKTF

CDK8S

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Are you passionate about building and maintaining robust infrastructure that powers cutting-edge technology? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where software engineers and infrastructure specialists collaborate seamlessly? If so, this opportunity is for you!

We’re looking for a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our User Apps Department and play a vital role in supporting the world’s most technologically advanced controlled environment agricultural system and its spin-off technologies.

What You’ll Be Doing:

*Developing and maintaining tools and libraries that empower software engineers to self-serve on feature delivery

*Embedding within teams and projects as the subject matter expert in infrastructure and software delivery

*Enhancing our monitoring suite to make reliability and debugging a shared responsibility across all teams

*Exploring and evaluating new tools and technologies, driving proofs of concept, and shaping best practices

*Participating in the out-of-hours on-call rota, ensuring system resilience and reliability

Who We’re Looking For: You’ll have experience working as an embedded engineer within a team, while also engaging in the broader SRE practice. Ideally, you have a strong foundation in both software engineering and infrastructure, allowing you to empathise with challenges on both sides.
Our stack includes Azure and Kubernetes, with a focus on cloud-native development. While deep Kubernetes experience is a priority, an understanding of cloud-native infrastructure principles is equally valuable.

Bonus points if you have experience with:

*Progressive delivery (continuous delivery, feature flagging, canary deployments)

*Our core languages: Dotnet, Python, and TypeScript

*Infrastructure as Code tools like CDKTF and CDK8S

*Software delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions, Flux)

*Monitoring and observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Why Join Us? We know that no one person will tick every box, so we welcome applicants with constellations of skills and a willingness to learn. You’ll be joining a forward-thinking team that is shaping the future of sustainable technology, where innovation, collaboration, and impact drive everything we do.

A competitive salary is accompanied by core benefits including; 7 weeks’ holiday, an employer pension contribution scheme, opt in Private Health Care, company sick pay, Income Protection, Life Assurance x 4 of basic salary, Lifestyle & Recognition benefits and personal development/training funding.