VP, Site Reliability Engineering: Scale & Resilience

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a VP-level Site Reliability Engineer to architect and operate highly reliable platforms that support critical services at scale. You will collaborate across engineering teams to improve production systems and enable rapid delivery of new services.

The role emphasizes SRE principles such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems, with leadership opportunities in incident response and on-call design within a financial services context.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating reliable distributed systems.
• Experience with IaC, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong debugging, incident response, and performance tuning skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field; 7+ years in SRE/DevOps roles.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to define SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems and review patterns like circuit breakers and rate limits.
• Reduce toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities.
• Improve production readiness through load testing, capacity forecasting and chaos engineering.
• Lead complex multi-system incidents and drive blameless post-mortems for root-cause analysis.
• Design sustainable on-call models with clear escalation and balanced pager responsibilities.

Skills

Java/Python/Node.js

IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation)

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Open

Linux/SDLC & Testing

Networking & Load Balancing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK/Elastic

CloudWatch

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a VP-level Site Reliability Engineer to architect and operate highly reliable platforms that support critical services at scale. You will collaborate across engineering teams to improve production systems and enable rapid delivery of new services.

The role emphasizes SRE principles such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems, with leadership opportunities in incident response and on-call design within a financial services context.