SRE Associate: Build Reliable, Scalable Systems

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Birmingham seeks an Associate Site Reliability Engineer to join Core Engineering.

You will help build and operate high-performing, scalable systems, focusing on reliability, observability, and automation across critical services in a fast-paced financial environment. You will collaborate with engineering teams to reduce downtime, improve deployment speed, and implement self-healing capabilities, while adhering to strong control disciplines and incident response

Qualifications

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

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, and readiness reviews.
• Scale and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability, capacity, performance, and resilience.
• Practice sustainable incident management with clear escalation and blameless postmortems.
• Identify and implement improvements to system behavior, controls, observability, and monitoring tools.
• Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs, and error budgets to quantify service reliability.
• Engineer automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce toil and improve efficiency.

Skills

Software engineering

Systems engineering

Production engineering

Site reliability engineering

Java

Python

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Birmingham seeks an Associate Site Reliability Engineer to join Core Engineering.

You will help build and operate high-performing, scalable systems, focusing on reliability, observability, and automation across critical services in a fast-paced financial environment. You will collaborate with engineering teams to reduce downtime, improve deployment speed, and implement self-healing capabilities, while adhering to strong control disciplines and incident response