Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Assume a critical role in defining the future of a globally recognized firm and have a direct and significant effect in a realm tailored for top achievers in site reliability.

 

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial Investment Bank, you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple technical domains, and advise others on the technical and business issues facing them. Take lead and conduct resiliency design reviews, break up complex problems into digestible work for other engineers, act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products, and provide advice and mentoring to other engineers. 

Job responsibilities

 

• Design and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Spinnaker etc.
• Manage production Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration
• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
• Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
• Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise
• Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses
• Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering; Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
• Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, .Net, etc.)
• Expert-level AWS experience (ECS, EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
• Production Kubernetes experience at scale
• Strong Terraform skills (modules, state management, best practices)
• Hands-on Jenkins experience (pipelines, shared libraries)
• Spinnaker experience for continuous delivery
• Python/Bash/Go scripting abilities
• Deep understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets)

• Drive to self-educate and evaluate new technology

   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS or Kubernetes certifications
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Service mesh knowledge (Istio, Linkerd)
• GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Ability to teach new programming languages to team members
• Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on div