Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Operations Excellence for AI Platforms

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability strategy for the AI/ML data platform. You will lead incident response, drive release readiness, and champion AI-assisted reliability across SDLC with strong governance and risk controls.

You will mentor engineers, perform resiliency reviews, and guide engineering teams toward scalable, secure, and measurable reliability improvements in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise system architecture.
• Fluent in Python.
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to improve SRE workflows with validation and data sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk, and define guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the incident management process, including triage, escalation, stakeholder communications, and recovery.
• Serve as Incident Commander for major incidents, coaching responders to follow defined processes and lead problem management and root cause analysis.
• Drive operational readiness and strengthen change and release management practices by establishing readiness checks and delivery standards.
• Facilitate operational forums including operations reviews, incident review boards, and reliability councils to drive accountability and align priorities.
• Promote site reliability culture and share knowledge via internal forums and communities of practice.
• Lead initiatives to improve reliability and stability of applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels.
• Collaborate to establish service level indicators and agree on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with customers.
• Leverage AI capabilities to accelerate major-incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis with proper validation.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Python

AI in SRE workflows

Incident management

Reliability engineering

Education

SRE certification/training

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 AI Machine Learning and Data platform 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

• Own and continuously improve the incident management process, including triage, escalation, stakeholder communications, and recovery.
• Serve as Incident Commander for major incidents, coaching responders to follow defined processes and Lead problem management and root cause analysis.
• Drive operational readiness and strengthen change and release management practices by establishing readiness checks, delivery standards.
• Facilitate operational forums including operations reviews, incident review boards, and reliability councils to drive accountability, share learnings, and align stakeholders on priorities.
• 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 programming language such as Python.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated experience improving operational processes, including incident management, root cause analysis and problem management.
• Proven ability to influence across teams, drive cross-functional initiatives, and communicate clearly with stakeholders, particularly in high-urgency, time-sensitive situations.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills with the ability to define metrics, generate actionable insights, and drive decisions based on operational data.
• Systematic problem-solving and troubleshooting skills applied to complex, distributed systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with a high degree of ownership, self-direction, and urgency in ambiguous or fast-moving situations.
• Experience leading reliability programs across multiple services or teams at a platform or domain level.
• Familiarity with operational governance frameworks and experience facilitating reliability forums or review boards at scale.

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

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. Shape the future of a leading firm, promoting impact in a high performance environment focused on site reliability operations excellence.