Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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 Commercial and Investment Bank 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

• Advocate and embody site reliability principles, fostering a culture of excellence and technical influence within your team.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance operational effectiveness and automate processes, ensuring high-quality customer service.
• Spearhead projects aimed at enhancing the reliability and stability of applications and platforms.
• Utilize data-driven analytics and AI technologies to automate detection, diagnosis, resolution processes, elevate service levels and drive continuous improvement.
• Engage stakeholders to establish realistic service level objectives and error budgets, ensuring alignment with customer expectations.
• Exhibit advanced technical proficiency in one or more domains, proactively addressing technology-related bottlenecks.
• Employ AI-driven solutions to streamline processes and enhance operational efficiency.
• Serve as the primary contact during major incidents, demonstrating the ability to swiftly identify and resolve issues to prevent financial losses.
• Act as a culture carrier by documenting and disseminating knowledge through internal forums and communities of practice.
• Mentor team members, guiding them in the strategic adoption of AI technologies to enhance operational effectiveness and customer service.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proven success in an SRE or senior DevOps role, with deep knowledge of service level indicators/objectives (SLIs/SLOs), incident management, postmortem analysis, and systems reliability.
• Expert with observability stacks (e.g. Datadog/Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry), including deep experience correlating telemetry across services and time.
• Hands-on skills in coding (at least one high-level programming language), cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and resilient CI/CD pipelines.
• Active experience or deep curiosity in applying AI to operations-such as LLM-based copilots, anomaly detection, automated runbooks, autonomous agents.
• A track record of delivering under pressure. You finish what you start, adapt to uncertainty, and thrive in high-accountability environments.
• You deconstruct complexity, organize effectively, and drive clarity into ambiguous operational environments. Documentation and design are second nature.
• Outstanding communication, empathy, and professionalism-especially during incidents. You recognize that great systems serve real people.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with operational and compliance rigor in banking, fintech, or similar.
• Manage and optimize various types of databases, including relational, NoSQL databases.
• Experience with game days, chaos experiments, or failure-mode analysis to improve service robustness.
• A background in mentoring engineers or leading technical knowledge-sharing, especially around AI and SRE best practices.
• Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problems
• Strong communicator with excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning skills, along with attention to detail and a passion for innovation.

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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.
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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.