SRE Associate — Build Reliable, Automated Systems

Goldman Sachs Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Associate) in Birmingham to join Core Engineering. You will help build, run, and scale high-performing, fault-tolerant systems and collaborate with engineering teams to reduce downtime through automation.

The role emphasizes SRE practices, observability, and capacity planning within a regulated financial environment. A strong foundation in software and systems engineering is required, along with a passion for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of professional software engineering, systems engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field involving programming, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Java, Python, or Perl.
• Ability to debug, optimize, and automate software and operational workflows in production environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a systematic approach to identifying risk, diagnosing issues, and driving resolution.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity, latency, and overall system health.
• Shape software before go-live through system design consulting, capacity planning, operational readiness reviews, and launch reviews.
• Scale and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability, capacity, performance, and operational resilience.
• Practice sustainable incident management through clear escalation, effective remediation, and a blameless postmortem culture.
• Identify and implement improvements to system behavior, controls, observability, and monitoring tools.
• Define and maintain service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to quantify and manage service reliability.
• Engineer automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.

Skills

Java, Python, or Perl

Software engineering

Analytical problem solving

Production workflows automation

Under pressure performance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Associate) in Birmingham to join Core Engineering. You will help build, run, and scale high-performing, fault-tolerant systems and collaborate with engineering teams to reduce downtime through automation.

The role emphasizes SRE practices, observability, and capacity planning within a regulated financial environment. A strong foundation in software and systems engineering is required, along with a passion for continuous improvement.