Lead SRE: Scale, Reliability & Automation

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced company pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance benefit

Sabbatical options after two years

Discounts on shopping

Parental leave policies

Well-being initiatives

Job summary

A leading automotive technology company in the UK is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design and scale infrastructure systems focusing on reliability, performance, and security. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Infrastructure as Code, and observability tools. This role involves mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional engineering excellence. Join us to take part in creating visionary automotive products.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of service reliability within a fast-paced tech organization.
• Familiarity with compliance and governance frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC2).
• Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to reliability and scalability.
• Resilient under pressure, with strong incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale infrastructure systems with reliability and security.
• Lead infrastructure strategy ensuring resiliency and performance.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption at scale.
• Define observability systems and set SLIs/SLOs.
• Mentor engineering teams on best practices.

Skills

Cloud-native infrastructure knowledge

AWS expertise

Terraform proficiency

Observability tools knowledge

Docker experience

Kubernetes orchestration

Infrastructure security principles

Incident management skills

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Git

Argo

Job description

A leading automotive technology company in the UK is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design and scale infrastructure systems focusing on reliability, performance, and security. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Infrastructure as Code, and observability tools. This role involves mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional engineering excellence. Join us to take part in creating visionary automotive products.