Site Reliability Engineer, AVP

Royal Bank of Scotland; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer at AVP level in Bengaluru. You will engineer and maintain reliable, scalable software and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the platform.

The role emphasizes incident management, observability, and end-to-end lifecycle ownership, with opportunities to sharpen your cloud, scripting, and automation skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Own reliability and performance of customer-facing and business-critical applications.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems at scale.
• Cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Observability tooling with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or Datadog.
• Programming in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain high-performance, secure and robust solutions.
• Work in a feature team and liaise with engineers, architects and business analysts.
• Produce complex, high-quality software rapidly.
• Lead full software life cycle from development to decommissioning.
• Collaborate to optimise software engineering capability.

Skills

Reliability engineering

API monitoring

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Scripting languages

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, s upport 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, p artner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Support teams to resolve customer-impacting issues and improve service stability and d efine 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