Site Reliability Engineer VP

RBS; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer at VP level in Bengaluru to strengthen reliability, performance, and security across products and services. You will drive error budgets, define SLIs/SLOs, and collaborate with feature teams to ensure safe, scalable delivery.

Join an inclusive, innovation-driven environment where you mentor others and influence release processes, with a focus on automation, observability, and AIOps to balance risk and velocity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in SRE/production reliability.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Java/Spring Boot, Microservices, React, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, automation and AIOps.
• Financial services knowledge and ability to assess business impact, risk and opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Define error budgets to balance risk and reliability.
• Meet service level objectives and continuously improve systems and environments.
• Support the release process and push for reliability and velocity improvements.
• Coach and guide team members and the wider team as needed.
• Communicate incident status updates clearly to teams and stakeholders.

Skills

SRE & production support

Tools

AWS

Java/Spring Boot

Microservices

React

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

AIOps

Job description

Job Description:

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

• In this key role, you'll improve, drive, and embed 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 vice president level

What you'll do

As our 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. We'll also look to you to 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:

• Strong SRE and production support expertise, including SLI/SLOs, incident/problem management, ITIL, resilience and operational reliability with 12+ years of experience
• Strong technical experience across AWS, Java/Spring Boot, Microservices, React, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, automation and AIOps.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring, with strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills.

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

05/11/2026