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 Corporate Sector, 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

• Manage incident response to swiftly mitigate business impacts by coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact during major incidents, demonstrating the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues to prevent financial losses.
• Participate in 24x7 support coverage as required.
• Oversee, track, and validate all changes to the Production and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Lead initiatives to enhance the reliability and stability of team applications and platforms, utilizing data-driven analytics to improve service levels.
• Document and share knowledge within the organization through internal forums and communities of practice.
• Collaborate with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and work with stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers.
• Provide ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firm's growth.
• Champion and demonstrate site reliability culture and practices, exerting technical influence throughout the team.
• Exhibit a high level of technical expertise in one or more domains, proactively identifying and resolving technology-related bottlenecks.
• Strive to become an expert on the applications and platforms under your purview, understanding their interdependencies and limitations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• 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.)
• Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Proficiency and experience in Cloud Platform (AWS) infrastructure and setting up monitoring / observability for application migrated to cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
• Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex data structures, algorithms and new technologies and if needed self-educate on new technology
• Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to identify new technologies and relevant solutions to ensure design constraints are met by the software team
• Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problem
• Experience building dashboards with products such as Grafana
• Prior experience in both Systems Engineering and Software Development

ABOUT US

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 diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.