
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Columbus
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Lead SRE responsible for driving reliability, scalability, performance, and security across applications and platforms. You will lead resiliency design reviews, act as technical lead for medium-to-large products, and decompose complex problems into actionable work. Mentor and advise engineers, own major-incident response, and implement SRE best practices including observability, CI/CD, and container orchestration.
Location: Columbus, OH, United States
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.
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
- Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
- Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
- Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise
- Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses
- Exhibits deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other SRE best practices - implementing these within an application or a platform
- Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
- Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, Micro services, etc.)
- Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
- Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Data dog, Splunk, etc.
- Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc.)
- Experience with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
- Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups
- Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex data structures and algorithms
- Drive to self-educate and evaluate new technology - with ability to teach, train, and coach team members on current technology trends




