Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Banking Platform, Dublin

JP Morgan; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Ireland is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability and scalability of our digital banking platforms. You will work with a distributed team to implement observability, automation, and resilient design across services.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, championing best practices, and mentoring colleagues while collaborating with product and platform teams to align reliability with delivery goals.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience operating production systems in an SRE capacity.
• Strong debugging across services, infra, and pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence.
• Ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive continuous improvement of reliability, monitoring, and alerting across the service portfolio.
• Define and operationalise SLI/SLO, service-level objectives, error budgets, user journeys, and reliability scorecards.
• Reduce operational toil by building automation, self-healing mechanisms, and scalable reliability tooling.
• Lead performance engineering and capacity planning, including load testing strategy, bottleneck analysis, and scaling plans.
• Establish resiliency patterns such as graceful degradation, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and failover strategies.
• Set technical direction and standards for observability, alerting, automation, and site reliability engineering practices.
• Provide hands-on implementation for complex or high-impact engineering work while delegating effectively to grow team capability.
• Partner across product, engineering, and platform teams to align reliability priorities with delivery roadmaps.
• Participate in feature planning and design reviews to ensure reliability values are built in from the start.
• Coach and mentor site reliability engineers by providing technical guidance, feedback, and support for development goals.
• Build practical AI capability within the team by encouraging effective practices, guardrails, validation, and safe usage patterns.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Jaeger

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Ireland is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability and scalability of our digital banking platforms. You will work with a distributed team to implement observability, automation, and resilient design across services.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, championing best practices, and mentoring colleagues while collaborating with product and platform teams to align reliability with delivery goals.