Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – The Core Engineering
Goldman Sachs10 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with engineering leadership.
- Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems with product developers.
- Build automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities to reduce operational toil.
- Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and reliability reviews.
- Lead complex, multi-system production incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.
- Help design healthy on-call models, escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.
- Influence architectural decisions and drive SRE adoption across the engineering organization.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Java, Python, or Node.js, with a focus on tooling and automation.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, service meshes, and ingress controllers.
- Advanced experience building and operating resilient cloud-native architectures on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency with observability tools and stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or CloudWatch.
- Experience with automated testing, SDLC concepts, Linux application development, algorithms, data structures, and software design.
- Knowledge of networking protocols and load-balancing strategies in distributed systems.
- Strong collaboration, communication, analytical, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, System Engineering, or a related programming-focused technical field is preferred.
- 7 to 10 years of experience is preferred.
- Interest in financial markets and technology is preferred.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureDatadogDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
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.