Asset & Wealth Management - DevOps Lead - Vice President - Dallas

Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a strategic and hands‑on Senior DevOps Lead to drive the evolution of our infrastructure and application delivery processes. This role demands a leader who can balance significant technical contribution (approximately 50% hands‑on) with effective team management. You will be instrumental in shaping our DevOps practices, enhancing system reliability, scalability, and efficiency, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within your team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong software engineering foundation, having successfully transitioned into a DevOps leadership capacity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of 5 DevOps engineers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring high team performance and engagement.
• Architect, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure, primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, testing, and deployment processes, ensuring rapid and reliable releases.
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to manage infrastructure efficiently.
• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system health, performance, and proactive issue detection.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of development and operations, focusing on reliability, operational excellence, and developer experience.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems and diverse technology stacks, ensuring minimal downtime and root cause analysis.
• Contribute directly to scripting and automation efforts using Python and Shell scripting to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency.
• Ensure adherence to security best practices, compliance standards, and regulatory requirements within the DevOps lifecycle.
• Participate in strategic planning for future infrastructure and tooling enhancements.

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related technical role within an enterprise environment.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of engineers, including performance management and career development.
• Strong hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS), including services like EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, etc.
• Expertise in scripting and automation using Python and Shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems, including system administration and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls).
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD tools and practices (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• A strong foundational background in software engineering, with prior experience in developing applications using technologies such as Java and MongoDB, and a clear transition into a DevOps leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with other cloud providers (e.g., Google Cloud Platform) or specific services related to "CGK" if applicable.
• Experience in the financial services industry or other highly regulated environments.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive change across teams.
• A passion for continuous learning, staying abreast of emerging technologies, and advocating for best practices in DevOps and SRE.

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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 158355
• Job Category Senior Vice President
• Posting Date 12/22/2025, 02:22 PM
• Locations Dallas, Texas, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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.

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

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).

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.

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