Lead Site Reliability Engineer Market Risk

Next Frontier Capital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, you will lead resilience design reviews and guide your team towards optimal reliability. Responsibilities include improving application stability through data analytics and leading major incident resolutions.

The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in site reliability engineering, be proficient in programming, and have deep knowledge of reliability best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering.
• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Fluency in languages such as Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Champion site reliability culture in your team.
• Lead reliability improvement initiatives using data analytics.
• Act as the main contact during major incidents.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Reliability best practices

Fluency in programming languages

Observability tools

Continuous integration and delivery tools

Container orchestration

Job description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Market Risk Technology, 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

• 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
• 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.)
• 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
• Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex data structures and algorithms
• Drive to self-educate and evaluate new technology

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

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