Head of Site Reliability Engineering

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design and operation of highly available, resilient platforms. You will drive SLOs, incident response, and automation across multiple engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years in SRE or related roles, deep cloud expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), and strong coding and debugging skills in Java, Python, or Node.js. This role emphasizes blameless post-mortems and toil reduction.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of relevant experience in SRE or software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, or Node.js with focus on clean, maintainable code for tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience with IaC frameworks and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Collaborate to architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Conduct architectural reviews; introduce circuit breakers and rate limiting.
• Reduce toil by building automation and self-service capabilities.
• Improve production readiness via load testing and chaos engineering.
• Lead incident response; drive blameless post-mortems and preventive actions.
• Promote healthy on-call models with clear escalation paths.
• Help design observable, resilient platforms for critical services.
• Collaborate across teams to improve production architecture and delivery.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Analytical thinking

SRE mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

ELK

CloudWatch

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design and operation of highly available, resilient platforms. You will drive SLOs, incident response, and automation across multiple engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years in SRE or related roles, deep cloud expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), and strong coding and debugging skills in Java, Python, or Node.js. This role emphasizes blameless post-mortems and toil reduction.