Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Corporate KYC

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer within the Corporate KYC Technology group in Houston.

You will lead and mentor a team, drive resiliency design reviews, and break down complex problems for other engineers while guiding medium to large products toward robust, scalable reliability. The role emphasizes strong technical leadership across observability, CI/CD, AI-assisted workflows, and incident response, with a focus on security, data sensitivity, and auditability

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software or site reliability engineering with formal training or certification.
• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Fluency in Python, Java Spring Boot, .Net, or similar languages.
• Proven use of AI capabilities to improve SRE workflows with validation.
• Ability to evaluate AI-driven recommendations for accuracy, risk, and guardrails.
• Strong knowledge of observability and telemetry across tools.
• Experience with CI/CD and IaC tooling.
• Hands-on with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Experience troubleshooting common systems and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices.
• Leads initiatives to improve reliability and stability using data-driven analysis.
• Collaborates to establish SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with customers.
• Uses enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate incident triage and analysis.
• Leads reuse-first AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/tooling.
• Exhibits deep technical expertise and resolves bottlenecks in areas of expertise.
• Acts as main contact during major incidents to mitigate losses.
• Documents and shares knowledge within internal forums and communities.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Reliability Engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Containerization

Kubernetes

AI for Ops

Python/Java

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Datadog

Splunk

Jenkins

GitLab

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Know Your Customer (KYC) Technology group, youhold 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 the 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

• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
• Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise
• Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses
• Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
• Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, .Net, etc.)
• Demonstrable 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.
• Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with troubleshooting common technologies and issues

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to teach new programming languages to team members
• Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups

Employer Description

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Organization Description

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.