Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JP Morgan Chase Bank; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a lead Site Reliability Engineer for its Reconciliation team in Commercial & Investment Banking. You will drive availability, scalability, and reliability across complex platforms while implementing automated monitoring, logging, and governance using Terraform and cloud-native tooling.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud environments, scripting, and DevOps practices, plus the ability to design resilient systems with limited oversight, contributing to secure, robust,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Minimum 10 years of overall experience
• Experience with automation tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Proficient with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

Responsibilities

• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS and implement/Enhance infrastructure automation via IaaC using Terraform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
• Automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Demonstrates site reliability principles and practices every day and champions the adoption of site reliability throughout the team
• Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
• Works toward becoming an expert on the applications and platforms in your remit while understanding their interdependencies and limitations
• Evolves and debug critical components of applications and platforms
• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growth

Skills

Problem solving

Independent design

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

As a Lead SRE at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking's Reconciliation team, you will play a crucial role in improving, developing, and delivering top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your skills and contributions will have a substantial impact on the business, and your profound technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies will be utilized to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS and implement/Enhance infrastructure automation via IaaC using Terraform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
• Automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Demonstrates site reliability principles and practices every day and champions the adoption of site reliability throughout the team
• Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
• Works toward becoming an expert on the applications and platforms in your remit while understanding their interdependencies and limitations
• Evolves and debug critical components of applications and platforms
• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growth

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Minimum 10 years of overall experience
• Experience with automation tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Proficient with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• Experience in AWS