Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of our cloud platforms, drive production readiness, and advance observability across GCP and Azure environments.

You will mentor SREs, develop Terraform modules, strengthen CI/CD patterns, and collaborate with security and governance teams to embed policy-as-code and compliance into cloud operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud operations with exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands-on IaC experience using Terraform for provisioning.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals with version control and testing practices for infrastructure code.
• Experience developing Terraform modules and configurations for automated cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment and automated release processes.
• DevSecOps mindset with security and compliance checks embedded in workflows.
• Good understanding of GCP services, networking (VPCs, IAM, load balancing), and enterprise governance requirements.
• Experience supporting automation/standardization to improve cloud deployment efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority for GCP platform reliability, resiliency, observability, automation, and production readiness.
• Design and implement reliability patterns for Azure landing zones, DNS, firewalls, and workload onboarding.
• Lead complex platform reliability initiatives and enterprise dashboard automation.
• Define and mature SLIs/SLOs, alerting standards, and service health reporting.
• Develop Terraform modules and automation frameworks to improve consistency and compliance.
• Drive observability improvements using Log Analytics, Dynatrace, and enterprise monitoring tools.
• Mentor SRE engineers and raise the technical bar for automation and troubleshooting.
• Partner with security/governance teams to integrate IAM, policy-as-code, and audit readiness.
• Create executive-ready reliability summaries and design reusable runbooks and health checks.
• Collaborate with development teams to align SLOs and improve service reliability.

Skills

Architecture

Collaboration

Innovation

Result orientation

Solution design

Adaptability

Analytical thinking

Influence

Stakeholder management

Technical strategy

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

CI/CD

Job description

Job Overview

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical authority for GCP platform reliability, resiliency, observability, automation, and production readiness.
• Design and implement advanced reliability patterns for Azure landing zones, private networking, DNS, firewalls, regional resiliency, service health checks, and workload onboarding.
• Lead complex platform reliability initiatives such as secondary-region readiness, egress/ingress observability, private DNS resolver monitoring, GenAI platform health checks, and enterprise dashboard automation.
• Define and mature SLIs, SLOs, reliability indicators, alerting standards, and service health reporting for Azure platform services.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation frameworks, and CI/CD patterns that improve consistency, compliance, and operational quality.
• Drive observability improvements using Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Resource Graph, dashboards, and enterprise monitoring tools.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and translate them into engineering roadmaps, remediation plans, automation opportunities, and operational controls.
• Lead deep technical investigations for major incidents, recurring problems, platform defects, or service degradation events.
• Partner with security and governance teams to integrate IAM, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, control validation, and audit readiness into Azure platform operations.
• Provide technical design input for new Azure services and workloads to ensure operational readiness before production adoption.
• Mentor SRE engineers and raise the technical bar for automation, troubleshooting, documentation, resiliency design, and production support.
• Create executive-ready technical summaries, reliability narratives, and recommendations for leadership review.
• Establish reusable standards for runbooks, dashboards, health checks, problem records, post-incident reviews, and production-readiness gates.
• Design solutions to visualize key production support metrics enabling operational readiness and site reliability engineering teams to identify scenarios requiring intervention.
• Develop software solutions and/or improved processes to address work identified as ‘toil’ by collaborating with key partners to identify, track, and remediate processes to free time allocated to reliability.
• Partner with development and infrastructure teams to create error budget policies prioritizing reliability stories that fall below Service Level Objective thresholds and suggest code optimizations, additional instrumentation, and/or logging structures to gain service reliability visibility.
• Identify and plan for capacity bottlenecks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for reliability improvement such as low-level error rates and noise, and reduce manual support effort and/or improve system reliability.
• Assess monitoring for new changes with development partners and work with monitoring tools team to monitor dashboards and enhance application and system monitoring designs.
• Engage as a subject matter expert in incident triage efforts, failure scenario modeling, and work with the problem manager to diagnose root causes for complex/high impact incident/problem management investigations.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and develop Service Level Indicators and SLOs to measure and improve the reliability of the services they support.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud operations, with exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including practical use of Terraform or Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure provisioning.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including version control, code quality, and basic testing practices for infrastructure code.
• Experience developing and maintaining Terraform modules and infrastructure configurations to support automated cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, including automated build, test, and release processes.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including integrating security and compliance checks into automated workflows.
• Good understanding of GCP services and cloud architecture fundamentals, including networking (VPCs, IAM, load balancing).
• Exposure to policy-as-code, governance, and compliance requirements in enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting automation and standardization efforts to improve consistency and efficiency in cloud deployments.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability tools to support system reliability and performance.
• Hands‑on experience with incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis in cloud or distributed systems.

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, architecture, and security teams to support reliable and secure platform operations.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to work within cross‑functional teams and document technical solutions clearly.
• Interest in learning and applying emerging technologies and automation techniques (including AI/ML where applicable) to improve platform reliability.

Skills

• Architecture
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Influence
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours per week: 40

Pay range: $152,600.00 – $191,500.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group, and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits: This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.