Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Wilmington, DE +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Site Reliability Engineer role focused on integrating and managing enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to enhance reliability engineering workflows, including design, operational decisioning, and SDLC practices. Requires strong SRE fundamentals, programming skills, and experience with AI tools in a regulated environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
  2. Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
  3. Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
  4. Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning (e.g., incident/post-incident analysis and requirements traceability), validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts plus 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
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve reliability engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
  • Ability to set team practices for safe AI usage in operations (e.g., review/approval expectations and escalation paths) while maintaining resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes.
  • 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 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

Nice to have

  • Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex data structures and algorithms
  • Drive to self-educate and evaluate new technology
  • Ability to teach new programming languages to team members
  • Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups

What the JD emphasized

  • Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning
  • Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve reliability engineering workflows
  • Ability to set team practices for safe AI usage in operations

Other signals

  • uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning
  • Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve reliability engineering workflows
  • Ability to set team practices for safe AI usage in operations