Lead SRE - AWS,Python

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
UK
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Bash Shell Cloud Engineering Computer Programming Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Python (Programming Language) Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Strategies of Testing
+11 more
Datadog Data Logging Scripting Delivery Pipeline Multi-Cloud Reliability of Systems Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Terraform Dynatrace Golang

Job description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorganChase, you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of production systems that serve millions of customers and clients globally. You will partner with engineering and product teams to embed reliability practices into the software development lifecycle, driving a culture of operational excellence. Your work will directly impact the firm’s ability to deliver seamless, uninterrupted services at enterprise scale., * Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure solutions that meet the firm’s availability and performance standards

  • Define and enforce service level objectives, error budgets, and reliability targets in partnership with engineering and product stakeholders
  • Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews to identify systemic improvements and reduce mean time to recovery
  • Develop and maintain automation frameworks to eliminate toil, improve deployment pipelines, and accelerate delivery velocity
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineering, architecture, and security teams to embed reliability and resiliency principles early in the design process
  • Champion observability practices by building and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions that provide actionable insights into system health
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, operational discipline, and engineering excellence
  • Evaluate and influence platform and tooling decisions to ensure alignment with reliability, scalability, and security requirements
  • Leverage enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve operational outcomes, including incident triage support, test strategy acceleration, and delivery workflow optimization, while ensuring consistent validation and secure handling of inputs and outputs

Requirements

  • Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with a strong focus on availability, fault tolerance, and performance
  • Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash) for automation and tooling development
  • Experience defining and managing service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets in production environments
  • Strong background in observability tooling, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing platforms
  • Demonstrated experience leading incident response processes, conducting blameless post-mortems, and driving systemic reliability improvements
  • Experience with container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code practices (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, or equivalent)
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience operating in a regulated financial services or similarly complex enterprise environment
  • Familiarity with chaos engineering principles and tools used to proactively test system resilience
  • Exposure to cloud-native architectures and multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments
  • Experience contributing to platform engineering or internal developer tooling initiatives
  • Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or cost optimization at scale

About the company

JPMorganChase is one of the world’s leading financial services firms, and the technology that powers it demands the highest standards of reliability, performance, and scale. Here, you will work alongside talented engineers who are passionate about building systems that never sleep - and you will have the opportunity to grow your career while solving some of the most complex infrastructure challenges in the industry. We invest in our people, our platforms, and our future - and we want you to be part of it., J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., 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.

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