VP, SRE Platforms — Scale, Reliability & Automation

The Goldman Sachs Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Goldman Sachs Group is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (Vice President) to lead the availability, reliability, and scalability of its critical platform services.

You will architect, build, and operate massively distributed systems across on‑prem and cloud environments, mentoring engineers and partnering with executives to drive best‑practice reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands‑on SRE experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Go.
• Extensive cloud experience (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation and configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic availability, scalability, and performance of mission‑critical services.
• Lead architectural design of highly available infrastructure and applications.
• Build automation platforms to reduce toil and improve deployment workflows.
• Own incident management with deep root‑cause analysis and preventative measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability in design and capacity planning.
• Define observability strategies with monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Cloud AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

IaC Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Distributed systems

Education

Advanced degree in CS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Datadog

Job description

The Goldman Sachs Group is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (Vice President) to lead the availability, reliability, and scalability of its critical platform services.

You will architect, build, and operate massively distributed systems across on‑prem and cloud environments, mentoring engineers and partnering with executives to drive best‑practice reliability and efficiency.