Site Reliability Engineer, VP

RBS; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the availability, performance, and security of our financial services platforms. You will partner with feature teams to balance reliability with delivery velocity and define error budgets.

You’ll lead improvements to monitoring, incident response, release processes, and capacity planning, mentoring peers and driving automation. This role involves cross‑functional collaboration and requires a strong data‑driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in reliability systems thinking and a data-driven approach to problem solving.
• Financial services knowledge and ability to assess business impact, risk and opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments.
• Define error budgets to balance risk and reliability, and support release processes.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and architectural improvements.
• Coach and guide colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.
• Communicate incident status updates clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Reliability thinking

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder communication

Financial services knowledge

Incident management

Tools

EMR

Airflow

DynamoDB

S3

RDS

Elastic Beanstalk

EC2

Kinesis

Lambda

CloudWatch

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Artifactory

PySpark

Spark

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:

• Proficient in key AWS tools including EMR, Airflow, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, ElsacticBeanStalk, EC2,EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Hands-on experience in programming Language like Java, Scala , Spark, Python , shell,, pyspark along with experience in DevOps Tools like Git, bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory
• 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
• Experience using mathematical and statistical models to assess trends
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

18/09/2026