Foundation Engineering - SRE Platforms - Site Reliability Engineer – Associate - London
Goldman Sachs1 day ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Build, run, and continuously improve the Consolidated Trade Ledger platform.
- Develop maintainable automation and production engineering solutions using modern programming languages.
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability, incident response, and operational efficiency.
- Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement durable engineering fixes.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, handoffs, and operational-readiness practices.
- Support SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident reduction, service health, and blameless learning.
- Communicate complex technical issues clearly to technical, business, and senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong programming ability in one or more modern languages, with Java or Go strongly preferred.
- Understanding of networking, messaging, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling for metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboarding.
- Ability to investigate production issues and deliver fixes that reduce repeat incidents.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with public cloud platforms, especially GCP, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, microservices, or service mesh technologies.
- Familiarity with relational databases and data-intensive platforms.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production systems, preferably in financial services.
- Experience with canary releases, blue/green deployments, feature flags, or chaos/game days.
- Experience developing AI-assisted operations capabilities such as alert enrichment, anomaly detection, triage support, or runbook automation.
Benefits
- Training and development opportunities, firmwide professional networks, benefits, wellness offerings, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with disabilities or special needs.
- Equal opportunity employment and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities trading, and asset and wealth management to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Its businesses generate revenue from advisory and underwriting fees, trading and financing, and management fees on client assets. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York City, it operates worldwide and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker GS.