Site Reliability Engineer, VP

Closing date for applications: 15/07/2026

Location Gurugram, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

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 at least 12 years of experience 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:

Good knowledge and experience of programming languages

Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation, and troubleshooting

Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle

Experience using mathematical and statistical models to assess trends

Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Welcome to our Gurugram hub

Spanning 437,000 sq. ft., our campus in Gurugram features two state-of-the-art towers – 1A and 2A at the Candor TechSpace in Sector 21.

Key facts:

Surrounded by 28 acres

Space for 4,100 colleagues

Opened in 2010

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

JavaScript

ReactJS

AngularJS

Back end

Python

Java

Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

AWS

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Data

Kafka

Hadoop

PostgreSQL

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