Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) The Core Engineering Birmingham

WHAT WE DO

Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs sits at the intersection of software engineering systems design and production this VP role you will help engineer highly reliable observable and resilient platforms that support critical business services at scale. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to continually improve our production system architecture facilitate fast delivery of new services and reduce downtime.

This role is for software engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed system problems building tools and platforms that make teams more effective and championing SRE principles (such as SLOs error budgets and blameless post-mortems) across a large engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to establish service level objectives (SLOs) service level indicators (SLIs) and error budgets.
• Collaborate with product developers to architect highly available fault-tolerant and self-healing systems. Conduct architectural reviews and introduce patterns like circuit breakers graceful degradation and rate limiting.
• Reduce operational toil by building automation tooling and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work.
• Improve production readiness through load testing performance tuning capacity forecasting chaos engineering and reliability reviews.
• Lead the response to complex multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and drive long-term preventative actions.
• Promote sustainable operations by helping design healthy on-call models clear escalation paths and balanced pager responsibilities.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Core Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java Python or ) with a focus on writing clean maintainable code for tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s) including service meshes and ingress controllers.
• Advanced experience with major cloud providers (AWS GCP or Azure) specifically building and operating highly resilient cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks including distributed tracing logging and metrics (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Splunk Datadog OpenTelemetry ELK or CloudWatch)
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts developing applications in a Linux environment and sound knowledge of algorithms data structures and software design.
• Knowledge of networking protocols(VPC) load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment database query performance tuning and identify cause for lagging

Core Competencies & Soft Skills

• Ability to analyze complex distributed systems holistically and understand how individual components interact under load.
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with product developers influence architectural decisionsprioritize toil reduction and drive SRE adoption without direct authority.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly motivated pro-active and capable of multi-tasking under pressure in a fast-paced environment without compromising quality.
• Commitment to fostering a blameless culture where failures are treated as opportunities to learn and improve systems.
• Interest in financial markets and technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science System Engineering or a related technical field that involves programming.
• 7 to 10 years of experience

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a leading global investment banking securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations financial institutions governments and individuals. Founded in 1869 the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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