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Site Reliability Engineer
Automation Engineer – AI Platform Operations
Role Summary
Era4 develops, owns, and operates AI infrastructure across the UK, powered by renewable energy, through the reinvention of legacy industrial sites into modern data centre facilities. This Automation Engineer role builds an AI Platform Operations function from scratch at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and AI-driven workflow automation, with no legacy constraints.
Must be located within Bristol or the surrounding area due to onsite requirements. Contractor options are available if interim support is preferred (day rate to be provided in application).
Key Responsibilities
Runbook Automation & Agent Development
- Build agentic, executable workflows capable of:
- Triaging, diagnosing, and autonomously remediating known failure patterns (with appropriate safeguards).
- Designing LLM-backed agents targeting:
- Observability stacks
- ITSM platforms
- Infrastructure APIs (DCIM, IPAM, hypervisor layers)
- Develop auditable, high-control automations for client interaction workflows and higher-risk platform actions (e.g., infrastructure orchestration).
Operational Tooling & Self-Service Enablement
- Engineer self-service tooling for engineers and service desk analysts:
- CLI utilities
- ChatOps integrations (Slack/Teams bots)
- Status dashboards
- Self-service automation hooks
- Reduce manual support dependency between DevSecOps and operations teams via automation.
- Maintain a version-controlled, peer-reviewed library of:
- Automation assets
- Agent prompts
- Runbook-as-code artefacts
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Event & Alert Intelligence
- Implement automation layers around monitoring and event management:
- Alert suppression logic
- Event enrichment pipelines
- Correlation rules
- Alert-to-ticket integrations
- Optimise observability tooling (Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana) to improve signal-to-noise ratios.
- Design event correlation and deduplication logic to mitigate alert storms and enhance incident context.
Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Capture
- Identify operational pain points for automation and prioritise a toil reduction backlog.
- Dedicate post-incident reviews to extract insights for future automation and runbook updates.
- Contribute to evolving Era4’s operational standards, tool architecture, and agent framework.
Requirements
Essential Experience & Skills
- Operations lead experience in SRE, Senior Platform, or DevOps environments, including:
- Hands-on on-call operations and incident management.
- Transitioning narrative runbooks to executable workflows/codified decision trees.
- ITIL-aligned understanding of incident/change management and ITSM tooling (ServiceNow, Halo, Jira Service Management)...
- Technical expertise:
- Python for scripting, automation, and API integrations.
- Proficiency with observability platforms: Prometheus, Grafana, or Mimir.
- API integration experience with ITSM platforms via REST/GraphQL.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures: message queues, webhook patterns.
- Strong grasp of GPU infrastructure management (performance metrics, signal automation).
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) experience (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform).
- API-first approach is mandatory—experience integrating agents with:
- DCIM (Data Centre Infrastructure Management)
- IPAM processes
- Hyperconverged control planes
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Nice-to-Have Advantages
- Exposure to data centre or colocation operational environments, especially high-trust compute/high-density GPU workloads.
- Expertise in ChatOps: building Slack/Teams automation bots for operations.
- Knowledge of:
- DCIM platforms and thermal/power telemetry pipelines.
- OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or log aggregation (Loki, ELK, Splunk).
- Experience contributing to open-source observability/automation projects.
- Background in startup/scale-up toolchain engineering (building systems from scratch).
Why Join Era4?
You’ll play a critical role in shaping a next-generation AI infrastructure company, with: ✅ High visibility with leadership. ✅ Real operational autonomy over system-wide tooling. ✅ Direct impact on operational excellence at scale. ✅ A mission-driven purpose: enabling 21st-century compute for healthcare, finance, and public good.
Diversity & Inclusion
Era4 is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive culture where everyone’s contributions are valued.
All dilutions and pronouns welcome.
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