Executive Director, DevOps/SRE — Equities Trading

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 191,595 - 255,460; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is hiring an Executive Director in DevOps/SRE. This leadership role involves defining the DevOps strategy for the Equities Trading platform, improving production excellence, and managing delivery across teams.

The successful candidate will ensure operational resilience and lead initiatives aimed at increasing reliability and efficiency. Requirements include extensive experience in DevOps/SRE, strong leadership skills, and expertise in CI/CD processes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in DevOps, SRE, Production Engineering, or Platform Engineering with measurable outcomes.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and release engineering at scale.
• Demonstrated accountability for production excellence and operational resilience practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the DevOps/SRE strategy and roadmap for the platform.
• Lead cross-functional delivery across application engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Implement a shared-responsibility operating model for compliance and operational standards.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Production Engineering

Leadership

Automation (Python, shell)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Ansible/Puppet/Salt

Prometheus/Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.

As an Executive Director in DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) atJPMorganChase, within the Corporate & Investment Bank Equities Trading organization, you willset and drive the reliability, automation, and operational resilience strategyfor a high-performance, latency-sensitive trading platform operating across multiple global regions. You will lead teams and cross-functional stakeholders to improve production excellence—reducing failure costs, improving availability, and increasing engineering capacity—through standardization, automation, and measurable operational outcomes aligned to a consumer-first mindset.

You will own thegovernance and delivery frameworkfor significant DevOps/SRE initiatives, ensuring clear outcomes, delivery plans, dependencies, risk management, and lifecycle reporting from initiation through closure. You will also operationalize ashared responsibility modelacross platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams to ensure consistent security, compliance, and production standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and drive the DevOps/SRE strategy and roadmap for the Electronic Market Making platform, aligned to measurable reliability and productivity outcomes
• Own governance for significant DevOps/SRE initiatives (documented outcomes, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and lifecycle reporting through closure)
• Lead cross-functional delivery across application engineering, infrastructure, network, and platform teams, ensuring clear accountability across regions
• Establish production excellence standards and oversee incident management, post-incident reviews, and systemic remediation to reduce failure costs
• Set and continuously improve resilience practices including automated failover, disaster recovery, and production readiness controls
• Own SLO/SLA and observability strategy (monitoring, alerting, and service health metrics/KRIs) to ensure uptime and performance transparency
• Lead CI/CD, release engineering, and multi-region deployment automation (build/test orchestration, artifact management, controlled promotion) to increase delivery confidence and speed
• Drive developer enablement via internal platforms, self-service tooling, and automation that increases engineering capacity while maintaining controls
• Implement and enforce a shared-responsibility operating model across platform/product and LoB engineering teams to meet security, compliance, and operational standards
• Lead and develop DevOps/SRE talent (hiring, coaching, performance) and manage operational and delivery risks with clear escalation and mitigation

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience in DevOps, SRE, Production Engineering, or Platform Engineering, includingleadership of teams and/or large cross-functional initiativeswith measurable operational outcomes
• Experience supportingelectronic tradingplatforms and/or other low-latency environments (market data, exchange connectivity, order routing)
• Demonstrated accountability forproduction excellence: incident management oversight, root-cause discipline, reliability improvements, and operational resilience practices
• Strong experience withCI/CD and release engineeringat scale (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent), including multi-region deployment patterns and governance
• Strong Linux experience (RHEL-based) and system performance diagnostics; ability to set standards for tuning, capacity management, and monitoring.
• Strong automation background (Python and shell), with an emphasis on building reliable, supportable tooling and self-service platforms
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible/Puppet/Salt) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing) and the ability to partner effectively with network teams supporting market data and exchange connectivity.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level updates driven by data, risk, and delivery transparency
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Expertise with observability stacks and operational analytics (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, ELK), emphasizing actionable alerting and service health management
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) in regulated, production-grade environments
• Familiarity with message-oriented middleware or pub/sub systems (e.g., AMPS, Kafka)
• Understanding of Equities, Options, and Futures market structure
• Experience working in regulated financial environments with strong production controls and audit-ready practices