Manchester, UK · Open to London · Remote & Hybrid Roles
| 11+ yrs in tech | 5+ yrs enterprise SRE | 100× cluster scale | 99.9% SLO |
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Principal SRE and Kubernetes platform engineer operating at global enterprise scale, founding and leading platform teams, scaling infrastructure from 3 nodes to over 1000, and building the reliability foundations other engineers depend on. Currently Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, a global enterprise automotive group operating across international markets.
| Role | Period |
|---|---|
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer | Sep 2023 — Present |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Mar 2021 — Sep 2023 |
Kubernetes Platform — 3 → 9 Clusters · 3 → ~100 Nodes Each · 140+ Services
| Technology | Context | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes (GKE · EKS · IBM K8s) | Multi-cloud cluster fleet, custom CRDs & operators in Go | 3 → 9 clusters · ~100 nodes each |
| Terraform + Helm + Kustomize | Full IaC cluster lifecycle, GitOps-driven provisioning | 9 production clusters, zero manual config |
| ArgoCD + Argo Rollouts | GitOps delivery, canary and blue-green rollout strategies | 140+ services across all clusters |
| Istio + Envoy | Service mesh, mTLS, traffic management, circuit breaking | Cluster-wide, all inter-service traffic |
| Cilium / eBPF | CNI, NetworkPolicy enforcement, low-level observability | Node-level across full cluster fleet |
| GCP · AWS · IBM Cloud | Multi-cloud platform engineering, VPC design, interconnect | 3 cloud providers, enterprise IAM |
Observability — Enterprise-wide · 140+ Services
| Technology | Context | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry + Tempo | Distributed tracing, unified across all engineering teams | 140+ services end-to-end |
| Prometheus + Grafana | Metrics, alerting, dashboards, SLO tracking | Full cluster fleet + business services |
| Dynatrace (Certified) | AI-powered anomaly detection, org-wide observability rollout | Organisation-wide transformation |
| PagerDuty (Certified) | On-call leadership, escalation policies, incident workflows | 24/7 coverage, cross-team ownership |
SRE Leadership
| Founding member of JLR's DDC SRE function | Grew team from 0 to multi-engineer capability |
| SLO programme | Established error budget culture and SLO/SLI frameworks across critical systems |
| Incident management | Blameless retrospectives, automated remediation, escalation process design |
| Internal Developer Platform | Built IDP on Backstage — self-service cloud deployments for remote engineering teams |
| IaC transition | Led GitLab infrastructure migration to full Infrastructure as Code |
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CAP_01 Kubernetes Platform & Cluster Scaling
CAP_02 Observability & Reliability Engineering
CAP_03 Multi-cloud Infrastructure & Networking
CAP_04 Platform Tooling & Developer Experience
Kubernetes & Platform
GKE EKS IBM K8s CRDs / Operators (Go) ArgoCD Argo Rollouts Istio Envoy Cilium eBPF
IaC & Automation
Terraform Helm Kustomize Argo Workflows Vault K6 Chaos Engineering
Cloud & Networking
GCP AWS IBM Cloud VPC Design Cloud Interconnect FinOps Enterprise IAM RBAC Pod Security
Observability
Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Tempo Dynatrace PagerDuty SLOs / Error Budgets
Languages
Go Python Bash Terraform HCL JavaScript / Node.js
- BSc Computer Science — 2:1 · University of Chester · 2017
- Dynatrace Certified
- PagerDuty Certified
- AWS & GCP Management Essentials
"First member of the DDC SRE team. His remarkable drive and determination, and his ability to plan and execute complex tasks with precision, has consistently moved the platform forward."
— Chapter Lead SRE, Jaguar Land Rover · 2023
"Josh's tenacity and diligence is the main reason we implemented distributed tracing. He actively seeks feedback and makes thoughtful, well-considered contributions to technical direction."
— Senior Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover · 2023