Manchester, England, United Kingdom Hybrid

JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and platform operations
  • Guide and mentor senior SREs, enabling the team to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient systems
  • Develop and enhance AWS based platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices
  • Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to ensure cloud native best practice
  • Oversee incident management processes and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance
  • Ensure systems meet internal and external standards for robustness, compliance, and operational excellence

Requirements

  • Extensive experience with AWS and Kubernetes
  • Strong coding background with experience across the full software delivery lifecycle
  • Proficiency in infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform and AWS focused tooling
  • Demonstrated leadership in coaching, mentoring, and improving engineering teams and processes
  • Solid understanding of cloud native development, CI/CD tooling, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
  • Strong communication skills and experience operating enterprise scale production systems

Benefits

  • Discounted car purchase (open to family members, too)
  • A 52 week maternity leave policy and a 4 week paternity leave policy. Other parental leave policies are available
  • A competitive pension
  • A JLR company performance-related bonus
  • An employee learning scheme providing funding for; education, training and other activities which support the development of personal skills and promote lifelong learning
  • Access to open, employee-led support and social networks
  • Comprehensive Life Assurance and Income Protection policies
  • Flexible working*

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: SRE function within Product Engineering

WHAT TO EXPECT

You’ll lead and empower the SRE function while remaining technically engaged across our cloud data platform.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

You’ll bring deep cloud expertise, strong engineering capability, and proven leadership in high performing technical teams.

Additional Information

  • Flexible working is offered for specific roles depending on responsibilities. Details can be discussed with the hiring team.
  • Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work.
  • Candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. These can be discussed with the recruiter.
  • Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome, even if they don’t meet the full criteria.
  • JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.
Required Skills
AWSKubernetesInfrastructure as Code
About company
JLR (Jaguar Land Rover)
JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) creates world-renowned vehicles, focusing on innovation and creativity in product engineering from advanced driver assistance systems to the future of electric propulsion.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 3 months ago