Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Athena Core

Aumni; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape the future of our global platforms within the Athena Core team. You will lead resiliency reviews, guide engineers, and drive AI-enabled reliability across the SDLC to minimize incidents and maximize service levels.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to define SLOs, apply best practices in observability, and mentor teams while owning critical incident response and architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise architecture best practices
• Programming languages: Python, Java/Spring Boot, .Net
• Experience using AI capabilities to improve SRE workflows with validation and data sensitivity awareness
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk
• Strong Linux skills and observability with SLOs, SLIs, and telemetry
• CI/CD tooling proficiency and container orchestration experience
• Experience troubleshooting networking technologies and issues
• Advanced knowledge with capacity to learn new tech and evaluate emerging tools

Responsibilities

• Lead resiliency design reviews and break down complex problems for engineering teams
• Mentor engineers and act as technical lead for medium to large products
• Improve reliability by using data-driven analytics to raise service levels
• Define service level indicators and establish objectives and error budgets with stakeholders
• Leverage AI capabilities to accelerate incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis
• Serve as primary contact during major incidents to minimize business impact
• Promote reuse-first AI-driven reliability workflows across SDLC
• Provide first-line support for the Athena Core team

Skills

SRE concepts

Python

Java/Spring Boot

.NET

Linux

Observability

CI/CD

Containerization

Networking

AI in SRE

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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 Commercial and Investment Banking, Markets Technology - Athena Core team, 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

• Consistently models and champions site reliability culture and practices, documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice
• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels, proactively identifying and solving technology-related bottlenecks in areas of expertise
• Drives collaboration with your team to identify comprehensive service level indicators and the stakeholder partners to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with your customers
• 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.
• Serves as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and has the skills to identify and solve the issue quickly to avoid financial loss to the business
• Offers a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and provides advice and mentorship to other engineers
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., CI/CD quality checks, test/validation automation, and operational readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Be part of the first line of support for the wider Athena Core team.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and applied experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Demonstrated proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices
• An understanding of programming languages such as: Python, Java/Spring Boot, .Net
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve SRE workflows (e.g., incident investigation support and knowledge capture) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk, define appropriate guardrails for team usage, and ensure outcomes align to resiliency and security expectations.
• A strong understanding of Linux, Proficient knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection
• Proficient with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and tooling
• Proficient with container and container orchestration
• Experience with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines, and actively self-educates to evaluate and recommend suitable new technologies

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.

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.

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Lead and conduct resiliency design reviews, break up complex problems, and act as a technical lead for medium to large sized products