Lead Site Reliability Engineer -EPAS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Columbus, OH, is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape the future of reliability across multiple domains. You will lead a team, drive resiliency reviews, and mentor engineers on SRE practices and security-aware AI-enabled workflows.

You will champion data-driven improvements, define and track SLOs with stakeholders, and serve as a technical lead for medium to large products, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Fluent in at least one programming language (Python, Java/Spring Boot, or .Net).
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities to improve SRE workflows with validation and data sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to evaluate AI recommendations for correctness and risk with proper guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Champions site reliability culture and documents knowledge sharing within the organization.
• Leads initiatives to improve reliability using data-driven analytics and identifies bottlenecks.
• Defines service level indicators and collaborates to set SLOs and error budgets.
• Utilizes AI capabilities to accelerate incident triage and post-incident analysis with security controls.
• Acts as main contact during major incidents and mentors engineers in best practices.
• Promotes reuse-first AI-assisted reliability workflows across CI/CD, testing, and operations.

Skills

Python

Java/Spring Boot

.Net

Observability

CI/CD

Container orchestration

Networking

Leadership

Mentorship

Tools

Dynatrace

AWS

Ansible

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 EPAS 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices
• Fluent in at least one programming language 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.
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ansible/AAP
• RHEL
• Dynatrace
• AWS