Site Reliability Engineer III

JP Morgan Chase; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Backup childcare

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III for its Commercial & Investment Bank Payments Technology team. You will design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency payment platforms using code and cloud infrastructure.

You will contribute to end-to-end reliability, scale, and performance, collaborating with software engineers and cross-functional partners to improve deployment and monitoring practices.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in site reliability engineering; 3+ years of applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Guide teammates in designing appropriate-level designs and promote SRE best practices.
• Collaborate with software engineers to design, implement deployment and reliability strategies via CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure as code for payment processing platforms ensuring repeatability and auditability.
• Monitor Kafka-based data ingestion pipelines for high availability and low latency.
• Resolve complex issues with stakeholders using SLIs/OKRs before customer impact.
• Improve observability using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, and Dynatrace for faster incident response.
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities to identify reliability risks and prioritize improvements.
• Assist in AI-assisted incident triage and post-incident analysis with strict data handling.
• Identify roadblocks and explore new technologies like AI agentic models and MCP-based frameworks.

Skills

SRE concepts

Programming: Python/Java/.NET

Observability

CI/CD tooling

Containers

AI in operations

Security & data sensitivity

Tools

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Job Description

There's nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skills to drive innovation and modernize the world's most complex and mission-critical systems. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to work on platforms that move money globally — where reliability, security, and performance are not just goals, they are requirements.

There's nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skills to drive innovation and modernize the world's most complex and mission-critical systems. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to work on platforms that move money globally — where reliability, security, and performance are not just goals, they are requirements.

As a Site Reliability Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank — Payments Technology team, you will solve complex and broad business problems with simple, straightforward solutions. Through code and cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize highly available, low-latency payment processing platforms and their associated infrastructure. You are a significant contributor to your team, sharing your knowledge of end-to-end operations, availability, reliability, and scalability — and helping to raise the bar for the entire team.

Job Responsibilities

• Guide and assist teammates in building appropriate-level designs, gaining peer consensus, and supporting the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices across the team
• Collaborate with software engineers and cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and implement deployment and reliability approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Implement infrastructure, configuration, and network as code for payment processing applications and platforms, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and auditability
• Monitor and maintain Kafka-based data ingestion pipelines, supporting the reliability and throughput of high-availability, low-latency payment flows
• Collaborate with technical experts, key stakeholders, and team members to resolve complex problems and proactively address issues using service level indicators and objectives before they impact customers
• Implement and improve observability solutions — including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, and Dynatrace — to drive transparency, faster incident response, and measurable service level objective outcomes
• Apply enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to identify patterns in operational signals that indicate reliability risk or recurring toil, prioritizing reuse-first improvements tied to service level objective outcomes
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis, validating outputs and handling operational data in accordance with security and sensitivity requirements
• Proactively identify roadblocks and drive improvements to solve business problems, including exploring new technologies such as AI agentic models and MCP-based frameworks where appropriate

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in site reliability culture and principles, with familiarity in how to implement site reliability practices within an application or platform
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java/Spring Boot, or .NET
• Experience with observability practices such as white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling
• Proficient knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a given technical discipline such as cloud, AI, or distributed systems
• Familiarity with containers, container orchestration, and troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
• Working knowledge of using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support site reliability engineering workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
• Ability to validate AI-assisted operational recommendations before applying changes, escalating when uncertain and adhering to data sensitivity requirements

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience supporting highly available, secure, and low-latency payment processing platforms in a financial services environment, including familiarity with fraud screening or payment flow patterns
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven data ingestion pipelines, and working knowledge of AI agentic models and MCP-based frameworks applied to reliability use cases
• Proficiency with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, or Dynatrace, with a track record of improving reliability through monitoring, incident response, and automation
• Experience implementing service level objective programs, performance testing, capacity planning, and resilience testing including fault injection, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery exercises
• Experience improving operational maturity through standardized runbooks, automated health checks, auto-remediation, and deployment guardrails
• Familiarity with database reliability patterns including capacity management, backup strategies, and failover readiness, as well as secure operational practices such as least privilege and secrets handling

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.