Site Reliability Engineer, AVP

RBS; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to advance your career in a high-availability, cloud-native environment.

You will engineer and maintain scalable, secure services, lead incident response, and collaborate with product, engineering, and support teams to improve reliability and SLIs/SLOs.

Responsibilities include lifecycle management, cross-team collaboration, and implementing observability and performance tuning across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of customer-facing applications and APIs.
• Lead major incident management, RCA, and post-incident reviews.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Strong observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or Datadog.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go).
• Performance tuning, scalability testing, and production support operations.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure, robust solutions in a feature team.
• Lead lifecycle activities from development to deployment and operations.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Support to resolve issues and improve stability.
• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to guide reliability practices.
• Interface with architects and analysts across the platform to optimize engineering capability.

Skills

API monitoring

Microservices

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Python

Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you’ll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• We’re offering this role at associate vice president level

What you’ll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you’ll need

You’ll need you to Own the reliability, availability, and operational performance of customer-facing and business-critical applications, support and troubleshoot distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platforms in production environments.

You’ll also lead major incident management, service restoration, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Support teams to resolve customer-impacting issues and improve service stability and define and drive Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budget practices.

You’ll also need:

• Strong experience supporting REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems at scale and deep understanding of API monitoring, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and dependency management.

Expertise in diagnosing and resolving issues across complex microservice architectures, APIs, and interconnected systems

Experience managing customer-facing incidents, ensuring service availability, and implementing observability, monitoring, SLI/SLOs, and reliability best practices

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Strong observability experience using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or Datadog
• Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability testing, and production support operations

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

09/09/2026