Site Reliability Engineer, VP

NatWest Group is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer, VP in Chennai, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on NatWest Group.

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On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, Java and Spring Boot.
Level classifies it as an executive role.
Level lists 83 other open roles at NatWest Group.
The role was posted within the past two weeks.

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Site Reliability Engineer VP responsible for system availability, performance, and incident response in financial services.

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Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

In this key role, you’ll improve, drive, and embed non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services
You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way
This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development
We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability.

You’ll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You’ll scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. We’ll also look to you to coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.

In addition to this, you’ll:

Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer-term goals
Continually balance and manage any potential risks
Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required
Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You’ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We’ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes

We’re also looking for:

Strong SRE and production support expertise, including SLI/SLOs, incident/problem management, ITIL, resilience and operational reliability with 12+ years of experience
Strong technical experience across AWS, Java/Spring Boot, Microservices, React, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, automation and AIOps.
Proven technical leadership and mentoring, with strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills.

Hours

Job Posting Closing Date:

05/11/2026

How we rate this

Site Reliability Engineer, VP at NatWest Group rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Site Reliability Engineer, VP is an open job at NatWest Group.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Chennai.
The job was posted on October 23, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by NatWest Group. Apply on NatWest Group

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