Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

General Motors is transforming the automotive landscape through its next-generation Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform. At the core of this transformation is data — powering advanced safety, personalization, energy optimization, and seamless user experiences. To support this, we’re scaling our  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)  organization, responsible for keeping our data platform resilient, performant, and scalable across millions of connected vehicles. 

We are seeking an  experienced, hands-on Engineering Manager  with a deep background in SRE, cloud operations, and project ownership to help define, build, and evolve the backbone of our data-driven future. This role is expected to be approximately  80% engineering  and  20% people leadership  — leading a small  team of 8 engineers  while remaining highly technical and contributing directly to the reliability and operability of customer-facing systems. 

What You’ll Be Doing  

• Lead the design and implementation of  scalable, fault-tolerant, and observable infrastructure  supporting vehicle telemetry, data ingestion, and platform operations. 

• Remain deeply hands-on: contribute code, review designs and pull requests, and unblock delivery on critical reliability work. 

• Champion  configuration management ,  infrastructure refactoring , and  testing frameworks  to strengthen system resilience. 

• Partner across SRE, development, and product teams to improve  service reliability , deployment safety, and  incident response practices . 

• Drive internal consultation and strategic planning on  reliability standards  for new product initiatives and customer-facing applications; communicate trade-offs with strong executive function. 

• Define and evolve  observability strategy  using tools such as  Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog , with automated alerting and actionable SLO dashboards. 

• Own and improve  on-call practices , manage blameless postmortems, and guide root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures. 

• Lead and develop a  team of 8 engineers  through coaching, feedback, and growth planning; cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in  extreme ownership  and operational excellence. 

• Support hiring and onboarding for the team; build psychological safety and leverage high EQ to navigate ambiguity and change. 

• Support compliance and  privacy-driven engineering  initiatives, with potential crossover into areas like  data retention  and  safety certification tooling . 

What You Bring  

• 8+ years in  SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering , including experience leading teams through mentoring, technical direction, and people leadership. 

• Track record of building and maintaining  high-scale, cloud-native systems  (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure). 

• Expertise in  container orchestration  and deployment strategies using  Kubernetes  and  CI/CD pipelines . 

• Proficiency in  Python, Go, or Java , with strong code review and readability standards; comfortable staying hands-on in production code. 

• Experience leading  cross-functional infrastructure projects  and setting technical direction while balancing reliability, performance, and cost. 

• Ability to think and act under pressure — whether debugging a live incident or prioritizing work across competing stakeholder needs. 

• Familiarity with  privacy engineering , data security, or experience supporting  compliance frameworks  is a plus. 

• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence — able to influence across levels, translate technical risk into business impact, and drive alignment. 

• Demonstrated people leadership with high EQ: coaching, feedback, conflict navigation, and creating an inclusive, accountable team environment. 

Why Join Us?  

This is more than an engineering role — it’s an opportunity to shape the  future of mobility . At GM, you’ll join a team committed to  cutting-edge technology ,  sustainability , and  inclusive innovation . With meaningful projects, a collaborative culture, and a global mission, your impact will be tangible and far-reaching. 

Ready to lead reliability at scale? Join our SRE team in Limerick and drive the future of connected mobility.