Principal Site Reliability Engineer

REQ ID: 130452

JOB TITLE: Principal Site Reliability Engineer SALARY: Competitive

POSTING START DATE: 12/05/2026

POSTING END DATE: 26/05/2026

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. What to Expect 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 What You'll Need 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 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. JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all. #J-18808-Ljbffr Jaguar & Land Rove