Site Reliability Engineer

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland in Bengaluru is seeking an Associate Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the availability, performance and resilience of our platforms. You will work with engineers to deliver safe changes, monitor systems, respond to incidents and help improve non-functional requirements.

This role offers collaboration across teams, with emphasis on continuous improvement and career development opportunities within a dynamic financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of software engineering experience.
• Financial services knowledge is preferred.
• Ability to identify risk and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Meet defined service level objectives and improve systems.
• Handle day-to-day health of production and non-production environments.
• Communicate incident status effectively to teams and customers.
• Contribute ideas to improve release processes and monitoring.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Postgres

Splunk

AMG

Tools

Splunk

AMG

Job description

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

In this key role, you'll support the improvement of non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services

You'll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way

This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development

We're offering this role at associate level

What you'll do

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you'll work alongside colleagues and feature team members to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You'll proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer term goals whilst at the same time balancing and managing risk.

You'll also be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments, responding to incidents as required.

A typical day will involve

• Providing structure and supporting release processes, suggesting and making improvements where possible
• Supporting the clear communication and frequent update of incident status to other teams and customers
• Providing technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
• Supporting the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health

The skills you'll need

You'll need at least five years of experience in software engineering, along with a strong understanding of reliability systems thinking . You'll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We'll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes.

You'll also need:

• Good knowledge and experience of programming languages
• Experience in Java, Microservices and Postgres along with observability tools such as Splunk and AMG
• Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
• Experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date

31/08/2026