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At the core of this transformation is data - powering advanced safety, personalization, energy optimization, and seamless user experiences. To support this,we’rescaling our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, responsible for keeping ourdata platform resilient, performant, and scalable across millions of connected vehicles.\nWe areseekinganexperienced, 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 approximately80% engineering and20%peopleleadership - leading a smallteam of 8 engineers whileremaininghighly technical and contributing directly to the reliability and operability of customer-facing systems.\nWhatYou’llBe Doing\nLead the design and implementation ofscalable, fault-tolerant, and observable infrastructure supporting vehicle telemetry, data ingestion, and platform operations.\n\nRemain deeply hands-on: contribute code, review designs and pull requests, and unblock delivery on critical reliability work.\n\nChampionconfiguration management,infrastructure refactoring, andtesting frameworks to strengthen system resilience.\n\nPartner across SRE, development, and product teams to improveservice reliability, deployment safety, andincident response practices.\n\nDrive internal consultation and strategic planning onreliability standards for new product initiatives and customer-facing applications; communicate trade-offs with strong executive function.\n\nDefine and evolveobservability strategy using tools such asPrometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, with automated alerting and actionable SLO dashboards.\n\nOwn and improveon-call practices, manage blameless postmortems, and guide root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures.\n\nLead and develop ateam of 8 engineers through coaching, feedback, and growth planning; cultivate a high-performance culture rooted inextreme ownership and operational excellence.\n\nSupport hiring and onboarding for the team; build psychological safety and leverage high EQ to navigate ambiguity and change.\n\nSupport compliance andprivacy-driven engineering initiatives, with potential crossover into areas likedata retention andsafety certification tooling.\n\nWhat You Bring\n8+ years inSRE, DevOps, or systems engineering, including experience leading teams through mentoring, technical direction, and people leadership.\n\nTrack record of building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).\n\nExpertise incontainer orchestration and deployment strategies usingKubernetes andCI/CD pipelines.\n\nProficiency inPython, Go, or Java, with strong code review and readability standards; comfortable staying hands-on in production code.\n\nExperience leadingcross-functional infrastructure projects and setting technical direction while balancing reliability, performance, and cost.\n\nAbility to think and act under pressure - whether debugging a live incident or prioritizing work across competing stakeholder needs.\n\nFamiliarity withprivacy engineering, data security, or experience supportingcompliance frameworks is a plus.\n\nExceptional communication skills and executive presence - able to influence across levels, translate technical risk into business impact, and drive alignment.\n\nDemonstratedpeopleleadership with high EQ: coaching, feedback, conflict navigation, and creating an inclusive, accountable team environment.\n\nWhy Join Us?\nThis is more than an engineering role -it’san opportunity to shape thefuture of mobility. At GM,you’lljoin a team committed tocutting-edgetechnology,sustainability, andinclusive innovation. With meaningful projects, a collaborative culture, and a global mission, your impact will be tangible and far-reaching.\nReady to lead reliability at scale? Join our SRE team in Limerick and drive the future of connected mobility.\n\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.\n\nRelocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.\n\nAbout GM\nOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visitHow we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. 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