Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham
Goldman Sachs2 months ago
Birmingham, United KingdomSenior / Staff+
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, chaos engineering, and reliability reviews.
- Lead complex, multi-system production incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems.
- Promote sustainable on-call models, escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.
- Drive SRE adoption and influence architectural decisions across engineering teams.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Java, Python, or Node.js, for tooling and automation.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Deep understanding 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 technologies including 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 VPC networking protocols, distributed-systems load balancing, and database query performance tuning.
- Ability to analyze complex distributed systems, collaborate effectively, communicate technical issues clearly, and drive reliability improvements without direct authority.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field involving programming is preferred.
- 7–10 years of experience is preferred.
- Interest in financial markets and technology is preferred.
Benefits
- Training and development opportunities, firmwide professional networks, wellness programs, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates with disabilities or special needs during the recruiting process.
- Goldman Sachs is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.
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.