Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Public Cloud Operational Excellence

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to blend hands-on engineering with program leadership for platform stability across Public Cloud.

You will partner with Engineering and Product to drive reliability outcomes, reduce incidents, and optimize cost of failure through scalable automation and AI-assisted tooling. This role emphasizes leadership and technical excellence on enterprise-scale platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE or production engineering at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated success standardizing reliability outcomes and cross-team processes.
• Deep knowledge of SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, and incident response.
• Experience partnering with Engineering and Product leadership to align priorities.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure and automation fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency across SRE teams: establish a gold standard for SLOs, on-call readiness, runbooks, postmortems, and operational readiness across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Embed reliability outcomes into roadmaps and delivery plans; convert incidents and error budgets into backlogs with measurable impact.
• Design and run operating cadences: incident/stability reviews, KPI reviews, planning inputs.
• Operationalize remediation through centralized automation while maintaining velocity.
• Identify automation opportunities and build a pipeline; track adoption and deflection.
• Own cross-platform platform stability metrics: SLO attainment, incident trends, MTTR/MTTI, change failure rate, ticket deflection.
• Apply AI/LLMs to improve triage and incident summarization with appropriate controls.

Skills

SRE experience

Cross-team collaboration

SLOs/SLIs

Observability

Incident response

Automation/IaC

AWS/Azure

AI in operations

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Job Description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Public Cloud team, you will blend hands-on engineering with program leadership to promote platform stability, ensure consistent execution across SRE teams, and partner closely with Engineering and Product to deliver measurable improvements in availability, support outcomes, and cost of failure.

Job Description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Public Cloud team, you will blend hands-on engineering with program leadership to promote platform stability, ensure consistent execution across SRE teams, and partner closely with Engineering and Product to deliver measurable improvements in availability, support outcomes, and cost of failure.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive consistency across SRE teams: establish and scale a "gold standard" for SLOs, on-call readiness, runbooks, postmortems, action tracking, and operational readiness across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Partner with Engineering and Product: embed reliability outcomes into roadmaps and delivery plans; convert incidents, support signals, and error budget trends into prioritized backlog with measurable impact.
• Operational excellence & BPMs: design and run operating cadences (incident/stability reviews, KPI reviews, planning inputs), standardize intake/prioritization, and ensure closed-loop execution.
• Risk governance: align reliability operations to risk/control expectations; operationalize recurring remediations (e.g., configuration drift, repeat findings) through centralized automation without sacrificing velocity.
• Ticket reduction & automation opportunities: identify top drivers of support load and operational toil; build and maintain an automation opportunity pipeline; track adoption and deflection.
• Platform stability metrics: own cross-platform reporting (SLO attainment, incident trends, MTTR/MTTI, change failure rate, ticket deflection, customer impact/cost of failure).
• AI for reliability operations: apply AI/LLMs to improve triage, incident summarization, correlation/symptom mapping, and guardrailed automation; measure accuracy, safety, and outcomes.
• Hands-on leadership: stay close to designs and critical implementations; lead systemic remediation and major incident response improvements.

Required Qualifications, Skills, And Capabilities

• 5+ years in SRE / production engineering / platform reliability / infrastructure operations at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated success driving cross-team standardization and measurable reliability outcomes through influence and operating mechanisms.
• Deep knowledge of SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, incident response, postmortems, and change reliability.
• Strong experience partnering with Engineering and Product leadership to align priorities and deliver results.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure and automation/IaC fundamentals (e.g., Python/Go/Bash, Terraform, CI/CD).
• Experience using AI/LLM-enabled approaches in operations (AIOps, AI-assisted troubleshooting, agentic workflows) with appropriate controls and measurement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Improved SLO attainment and reduced Sev1/Sev2 frequency; fewer repeat incidents.
• Reduced MTTR/MTTI and lower change failure rate; reduced customer minutes impacted (cost of failure).
• Measurable ticket reduction/deflection via scaled automation and self-service adoption.
• Consistent operating model adopted across SRE teams with trusted executive reporting.

ABOUT US

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

About The Team

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.