Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Athena Core

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape the reliability strategy for a global firm. The role requires leadership skills, deep SRE expertise, and experience guiding AI-enabled workflows across CI/CD and observability practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive resiliency improvements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define SLIs/SLAs while maintaining security and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts with 5+ years of experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Proven skills in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of Python, Java/Spring Boot, and .Net.
• Experience using AI capabilities in SRE workflows with validation and data sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to evaluate AI recommendations for correctness and risk, and set guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead resiliency design reviews and break down complex problems for engineers.
• Mentor engineers and act as technical lead for medium-to-large products.
• Collaborate to define service level indicators and objectives with stakeholders.
• Use AI tools to accelerate incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis.
• Serve as primary contact during major incidents to minimize financial impact.
• Advise on one or more technical domains and share expertise with the team.
• Promote reuse-first AI-enabled reliability workflows across SDLC, with traceability and security controls.

Skills

Python

Java/Spring

.NET

Linux

Observability

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Networking

AI in SRE

Security awareness

SRE best practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

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 5+ years 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

ABOUT US

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

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.