Site Reliability Engineer AVP

RBS; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS in India is seeking an AVP-level Site Reliability Engineer in Gurugram to maintain stable, resilient applications and define error budgets. You will support the release process and automate tasks to improve reliability across production and non-production environments.

You will drive observability using Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch and collaborate with feature teams to balance risk with velocity, coaching colleagues along the way. This role offers growth in a financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and software engineering.
• Data-driven and scientific approach to problem solving.
• Financial services knowledge and ability to assess business impact and risk.
• Clear, proactive communication with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Meet defined service level objectives and continuously improve systems and environments.
• Define error budgets to balance risk and reliability and support release processes.
• Scale systems through automation and evolve them for reliability and velocity.
• Coach colleagues and lead where required, guiding the team through incidents.
• Provide input to establish risk tolerance and communicate incident updates clearly.

Skills

Reliability systems thinking

Software engineering experience

Data-driven problem solving

Financial services knowledge

Effective communication

Tools

EMR

Airflow

S3

EKS

EC2

EMR-Serverless

Lambda

CloudWatch

Spark

Gitlab

Gitlab CI

Artifactory

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Description:

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

• You’ll manage the provision of stable, resilient, reliable applications with the end goal of minimising disruption to Customer & Colleague Journeys (CCJ)


• We’ll look to you to identify and automate manual tasks and implement observability solutions, ensuring a thorough understanding of CCJ across applications


• This is a great chance to work in a supportive environment with opportunities to advance your personal and career development


• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you’ll do

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability. You’ll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You’ll scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. You'll coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.

In addition to this, you’ll:

• Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer-term goals


• Continually balance and manage any potential risks


• Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required


• Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services


• Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. 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

We’re also looking for:

• Experience in key AWS tools including EMR, Airflow, S3, EKS, EC2, EMR-Serverless, Lambda and CloudWatch.


• Hands-on experience in programming Language like Spark, Python , shell along with experience inDevOps Tools likeGitlab, Gitlab CI and Artifactory.


• Hands-on experience of working with Docker, Prometheus and Grafana.


• Strong ability to debug complex data issues from splunk , spark and cloudwatch audit logs, working closely with stakeholders to manage customer incident and support Service management


• Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle


• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

20/10/2026

Requirements: