Principal Site Reliability Engineer

REQ ID: 130452 JOB TITLE: Principal Site Reliability Engineer SALARY: Competitive POSTING START DATE: 11/03/2026 POSTING END DATE: 25/03/2026 LOCATION: Manchester

Product Engineering at JLR is centred on innovation and creativity. From advanced driver assistance systems to developing the future of electric propulsion, the opportunities to create exceptional experiences for the future of motoring are wide-ranging. You'll work alongside industry experts to drive product strategy, manage programs, analyse performance, and lead transformation initiatives. Exceptional careers that bring world renowned vehicles to life start here.

A senior opportunity to shape JLR's global connected car and data platforms, leading engineering excellence while staying hands on with cloud native technology. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, enabling high performing teams, and driving modern SRE and DevOps practices at scale based in the heart of Manchester.

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

• 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

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

• 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

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you'll do extraordinary work with amazing people. In addition, you can expect a wide range of 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 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 is offered for specific roles dependant on responsibilities. Please speak to the hiring team for details.

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you're unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role - but you're interested in where it could take you - we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role - it's what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.

At JLR, we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work, and reach their full potential.

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