VP, SRE - Build Resilient, Scalable Systems

Goldman Sachs

West Midlands

On-site

GBP 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering to lead the design and operation of highly available, observable, and resilient platforms at scale. You will partner with engineering leaders to define SLOs/SLIs, drive automation, and reduce toil across multiple teams.

Ideal candidates bring 7–10 years of backend/ops experience, strong IaC and cloud expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), and a proven track record in distributed systems, incident response, and blameless post-mortems

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related technical field.
  • 7 to 10 years of experience in site reliability, DevOps, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Establish SLOs/SLIs and error budgets with engineering leadership.
  • Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, self-healing systems.
  • Reduce toil by building automation and self-service tooling.
  • Improve production readiness via load testing and capacity forecasting.
  • Lead incident response with blameless post-mortems and root-cause analysis.
  • Promote healthy on-call models and clear escalation paths.

Skills

Programming languages
IaC
Docker & Kubernetes
Cloud platforms
Observability
Linux & SDLC
Networking & load balancing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
ELK
CloudWatch

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering to lead the design and operation of highly available, observable, and resilient platforms at scale. You will partner with engineering leaders to define SLOs/SLIs, drive automation, and reduce toil across multiple teams.

Ideal candidates bring 7–10 years of backend/ops experience, strong IaC and cloud expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), and a proven track record in distributed systems, incident response, and blameless post-mortems

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