Site Reliability Engineer

Intelligent Growth Solutions; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology firm in Edinburgh is seeking a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer to support advanced controlled environment agricultural systems. Candidates should have strong skills in Kubernetes and Azure, with a focus on both software engineering and infrastructure. The role offers a competitive salary along with extensive benefits including 7 weeks' holiday and personal development funding.

Benefits

7 weeks’ holiday

Employer pension contribution

Private Health Care

Company sick pay

Income Protection

Life Assurance

Lifestyle & Recognition benefits

Personal development/training funding

Qualifications

• Experience as an embedded engineer within a team.
• Strong foundation in software engineering and infrastructure.
• Understanding of cloud-native infrastructure principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain tools and libraries for software engineering.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in infrastructure and software delivery.
• Enhance monitoring suite for reliability across teams.
• Explore new tools and technologies for best practices.
• Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota.

Skills

Cloud-native development

Kubernetes

Azure

Software engineering

Infrastructure

Continuous delivery

Dotnet

Python

TypeScript

Tools

CDKTF

CDK8S

GitHub Actions

Flux

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

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.