VP, SRE: Architect Resilient, Scalable Systems

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Financial Wellness & Retirement

On-site health centers

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within Core Engineering at the Birmingham location. You will lead reliability efforts across distributed systems, driving SLOs, observability, and incident response while shaping scalable, automated platforms.

This role emphasizes design reviews, reliability improvements, and reducing toil through automation, with a focus on on‑prem/cloud-native integration and resilient deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related domains.
• Strong experience with IaC, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in one major language (Java, Python, or Node.js) and tooling for automation.

Responsibilities

• Establish SLOs/SLIs and error budgets with engineering leadership.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems and reviews.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems to drive improvements.
• Reduce toil with automation and self-service tooling.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within Core Engineering at the Birmingham location. You will lead reliability efforts across distributed systems, driving SLOs, observability, and incident response while shaping scalable, automated platforms.

This role emphasizes design reviews, reliability improvements, and reducing toil through automation, with a focus on on‑prem/cloud-native integration and resilient deployments.