SRE Associate: Build Reliable Cloud Platforms

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join Core Engineering. You will help build, run and maintain high-performing, distributed systems, focusing on reliability, observability and automation across critical services.

Responsibilities include monitoring production services, capacity planning, incident response and driving improvements to SLIs/SLOs. The role requires 3–4 years in software or SRE, a CS/engineering degree, and experience with Java, Python or Perl and modern

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of professional software/systems/production/SRE experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Experience with programming/scripting languages such as Java, Python, or Perl.
• Ability to debug, optimize, and automate software and operational workflows in production.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage production services by measuring availability, capacity, latency, and system health.
• Shape software through system design reviews, capacity planning, and launch readiness.
• Scale and evolve systems to improve reliability and performance.
• Practice blameless postmortems and incident management for rapid remediation.
• Identify improvements to observability, monitoring, and toolchains.
• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for reliability.
• Automate and build self-healing capabilities to reduce toil.

Skills

Java

Python

Perl

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join Core Engineering. You will help build, run and maintain high-performing, distributed systems, focusing on reliability, observability and automation across critical services.

Responsibilities include monitoring production services, capacity planning, incident response and driving improvements to SLIs/SLOs. The role requires 3–4 years in software or SRE, a CS/engineering degree, and experience with Java, Python or Perl and modern