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IAM Secrets Management Engineering - SRE Platform Engineer - VP - London

Who We Are

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms.

Secrets and Encryption Services is part of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) business unit within Core Engineering Division of Goldman Sachs. Our mission is to protect the firm and our clients from cyberthreats such as credential compromise through the services we deliver and operate. The S&ES team is on a journey to uplift credential management infrastructure and solutions across the enterprise with a transformational programme to improve the security posture for the firm.

The Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Lead Site Reliability Platform Engineer (SRE) to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical, high-availability, high-throughput systems and infrastructure. This role involves leading collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing best practices in SRE, DevOps, and cyber security to enhance our operational efficiency and security posture.

System Reliability, Performance, and Security:
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure systems on AWS cloud services.
- Monitor system performance, reliability, and security, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across all environments, owning root cause analysis and incident management post-mortems.

Infrastructure Transformation, Management, and Security:
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes with a focus on security and reducing toil.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery while ensuring security best practices.
- Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Collaboration and Communication:
- Technical leadership and mentoring, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and security awareness.
- Work closely with development, product, and security teams to ensure seamless integration, deployment, and security of our services.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide updates on system status, security improvements, and enhancements

Core Skills and Experience we are looking for

Technical Expertise:
- Deep understanding of high-availability systems architecture and the ability to design and administer scalable and robust systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services and supporting Windows & Linux environments.
- Proficient with infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (i.e. Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of observability tools for monitoring and logging (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana and BQL).

Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to identify and resolve complex issues.
- Ability to proactively identify potential operational risks and vulnerabilities.

Leadership and Communication:
- Strong communication and technical leadership abilities to effectively collaborate with global cross-functional teams.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both client and technical peer audiences.
- Leads by example. Passionate for learning new technologies and products.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
7+ years of experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform infrastructure or related roles.
Experience working in finance or another highly regulated industry is desirable but not essential.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEVice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)London

JOB FUNCTIONSoftware Engineering

DIVISIONEngineering Division

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