Asset & Wealth Management-Cloud SRE Engineer-Associate-Dallas

Cloud SREEngineer - Associate

Who We Look For:

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers who thrive in fast-paced global environments. We are seeking a motivated Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the WM Data Engineering this role you will apply software engineering principles to operational challenges ensuring that our cloud-native services - primarily running onAWSare resilient scalable and cost-optimized. As we transition from on-premises legacy systems to AWS you will be the guardian of system health moving beyond traditional dashboards to implementpredictive remediationandSLOs-as-Code.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Reliability & Performance Engineering:
   • SLO Management:Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) usingOpenSLOor similar declarative frameworks. Manage Error Budgets to balance the pace of innovation with system stability.
   • Predictive Observability:Implement AI-driven observability stacks (e.g.DatadogAmazon CloudWatch Container Insights orOpenTelemetry) to detect p99 latency spikes and subtle configuration drifts before they impact users.
   • Incident Response:Lead high-severity incident restoration and conductblameless post-mortemsto identify root causes and automate future prevention.
2. Cloud Migration & Orchestration:
   • Microservices Migration:Support the migration of on-premises microservices toAmazon ECS (Fargate/EC2). Design and maintain task definitions service discovery viaAWS Cloud Map and inter-service communication usingAmazon ECS Service Connect.
   • Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Develop and maintain modular version-controlled infrastructure usingTerraformorAWS CDK ensuring that reliability guardrails are baked into every deployment.
   • Automation of Toil:Identify and eliminate repetitive manual tasks (toil) by developing custom automation tools inPythonorGo.
3. Modernization:
   • Migration Support:Contribute to the migration of on-premises data workloads to AWS.

Qualifications:

Technical Requirements

• Experience:4 years in SRE DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles with a strong focus on production operations for distributed systems.
• Container Orchestration:Deep proficiency inAmazon ECS(Fargate and EC2 launch types). Experience withDockercontainerization and managing service-to-service connectivity.
• Programming:Strong proficiency inPythonorJavafor automation and tool development. Expert-levelSQLfor data-driven reliability analysis.
• Cloud Platforms:Advanced knowledge ofAWScore services (VPC IAM S3 Lambda) and networking (Transit Gateway PrivateLink).
• Observability Tools:Hands-on experience with modern monitoring and tracing tools such as PrometheusGrafanaAWS X-Ray orSplunk.
• CI/CD for Containers:Proven ability to build automated deployment pipelines for ECS usingAWS CodePipelineGitHub Actions orTerraform incorporating blue/green or canary deployment strategies.
• Soft Skills:Strong problem-solving builder mindset and the ability to communicate technical concepts within a team environment.

Education

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science Engineering Mathematics or a related field.