At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.
Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.
We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Site Reliability Engineer to join our Wealth Services Platform team. This role is located in Jersey City, NJ
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Drive reliability and performance by defining SLOs/SLIs, improving observability, and proactively identifying and addressing system bottlenecks across cloud environments.
- Automate infrastructure and operations using Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools to eliminate toil and enable scalable, fault-tolerant deployments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to reduce incidents, build resilient services, and ensure architectural clarity.
- Lead incident management by participating in on-call rotations, conducting postmortems, and implementing automated recovery to minimize downtime.
- Build and maintain monitoring systems with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk to support real-time alerting and root cause analysis.
- Develop platform tooling and pipelines for container orchestration, third-party integrations, and cloud-native operations to improve system efficiency and reliability.
- Mentor engineers and champion SRE best practices, embedding a reliability-first culture and ensuring technical excellence across engineering teams.
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
- Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
- Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Datadog, Splunk, and experience with incident response and on-call support.
- Solid programming and scripting skills in languages like Python, Go, or Java, with a focus on automation, tooling, and system integration.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, postmortems, and reliability-focused system design.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working in Agile environments and partnering with cross-functional engineering, product, and operations teams.
At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:
- America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
- World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
- Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
- “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
- Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
- Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023
Our Benefits and Rewards:
BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.
BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
What We Do
We help make money work for the world — managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system, we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investable assets. Today we help over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally access the money they need. For 240 years we have partnered alongside our clients to create solutions that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.
