Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer-core Engineering Solutions

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer focused on core engineering solutions within financial services. The role involves designing, implementing, and championing site reliability principles, observability, and robust architecture for software applications and platform products. Responsibilities include creating designs and roadmaps, mentoring engineers, collaborating on observability and reliability designs, and evolving critical system components. Requires advanced knowledge in SRE culture, public cloud, and observability tools, with experience in incident management and modern programming languages like Python, including AI-assisted solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Creates high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters that are delivered by you or the engineers under your guidance
  2. Provides advice and mentoring to other engineers and acts as a key resource for technologists seeking advice on technical and business-related issues
  3. Demonstrates site reliability principles and practices every day and champions the adoption of site reliability throughout your team
  4. Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
  5. Works toward becoming an expert on the applications and platforms in your remit while understanding their interdependencies and limitations

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Advanced knowledge in site reliability culture and principles with demonstrated ability to implement site reliability within an application or platform
  • Hands-on deep expertise in public cloud and modernization journey
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines
  • Experience working with incident management and troubleshooting defects found during testing
  • Ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methods
  • Recognized as an active contributor of the engineering community
  • Continues to expand network and leads evaluation sessions with vendors to see how offerings can fit into the firm’s strategy
  • Strong communication skills with ability to mentor and educate others on site reliability principles and practices
  • Hands-on designing and developing applications in modern programming languages like Python, including AI-assisted solutions to accelerate root cause analysis and reduce overall TTX with appropriate validation and human judgment

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet)
  • Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning for large-scale distributed systems
  • Knowledge of security best practices in site reliability engineering
  • Proven track record of driving reliability improvements in mission-critical environments
  • Experience with incident management and post-mortem analysis
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

What the JD emphasized

  • site reliability culture and principles
  • public cloud and modernization
  • observability
  • service level objectives
  • alerting
  • telemetry collection