Lead Front-Office SRE for Trading Platforms

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase's Trading Technology group seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape next-generation SRE patterns, reliability frameworks, observability strategy, and performance engineering across globally distributed systems.

Embedded within the software engineering team supporting front-office trading platforms, you will partner with traders and infrastructure teams to ensure stability, low latency, and robust incident response, while contributing production-grade code in Java, Python,

Qualifications

• Strong hands on experience in front office trading environments or similarly high pressure, low latency domains.

Responsibilities

• Engage daily with traders across asset classes to understand workflows, pain points, and reliability priorities.
• Act as a trusted engineering partner to the desk, ensuring systems are stable, performant, and aligned with business needs.
• Support live trading environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem leadership.
• Contribute directly to the codebase (Java, Kotlin, Python) to implement reliability improvements, performance optimisations, bug fixes, and automation.
• Lead the design and rollout of modern SRE patterns across trading systems, including automated remediation, self healing workflows, and resilience engineering.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate major-incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices, ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Drive improvements in latency, throughput, and stability across high volume trading applications.
• Build and maintain tooling for monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across global environments.
• Operate within a globally distributed engineering and trading organization, collaborating with teams in EMEA, US, and APAC.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure end to end reliability.

Skills

Front-office trading

SRE tooling

Python

Java

Kotlin

Observability

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Incident response

AI-assisted reliability

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

Kafka

ITRS Geneos

Dynatrace

InfluxDB

IBM MQ

Oracle DB

FIX messaging

Job description

JPMorgan Chase's Trading Technology group seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape next-generation SRE patterns, reliability frameworks, observability strategy, and performance engineering across globally distributed systems.

Embedded within the software engineering team supporting front-office trading platforms, you will partner with traders and infrastructure teams to ensure stability, low latency, and robust incident response, while contributing production-grade code in Java, Python,