Senior Lead SRE - Reliability & Observability Leader

Aumni; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join an agile team focused on reliability, observability, and performance across critical platforms. You will mentor engineers, lead incident response, and shape SRE strategy while delivering scalable, secure production systems.

The role demands deep expertise in cloud, automation, OpenTelemetry, and instrumentation, with a track record of improving service levels and reducing toil in large-scale

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with production stability focus.
• Deep knowledge of reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cloud architectures.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, Go).

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance on site reliability practices to teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops production code for reliability tooling and telemetry pipelines and reviews code.
• Drives decisions on reliability design, observability, and operational processes.
• Acts as a subject matter expert in SRE, observability, or telemetry engineering.
• Leads resiliency design reviews and breaks complex problems into manageable work.
• Acts as main contact during major incidents and facilitates blameless postmortems.

Skills

Advanced programming

SRE leadership

Cloud native

Incident management

Observability

Automation

Education

Software engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Elasticsearch

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join an agile team focused on reliability, observability, and performance across critical platforms. You will mentor engineers, lead incident response, and shape SRE strategy while delivering scalable, secure production systems.

The role demands deep expertise in cloud, automation, OpenTelemetry, and instrumentation, with a track record of improving service levels and reducing toil in large-scale