Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Plano, TX

16h

About The Position

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 Infrastructure Platforms, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and work with your team on complex technical and business challenges. You will champion non-functional requirements, participate in design reviews, and ensure service level indicators and objectives are integrated across product design, testing, and production. As a strategic influencer, you drive continuous improvement in customer experience, resiliency, security, scalability, monitoring, and automation, always approaching challenges in a blameless, data-driven manner.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced knowledge in site reliability culture and principles with demonstrated ability to implement site reliability within an application or platform
• Advanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methods
• Recognized as an active contributor of the engineering community
• Continues to expand network and leads evaluation sessions with vendors to see how offerings can fit into the firm’s strategy
• Ability to anticipate, identify, and troubleshoot defects found during testing
• Strong communication skills with ability to mentor and educate others on site reliability principles and practices

Nice To Haves

• Strong communication skills with ability to mentor and educate others on site reliability principles and practices
• Advanced knowledge and experience in observability capabilities across applications (metrics, tracing, SLOs), alerting, telemetry collection and ability to design critical and golden signal monitoring and dashboards

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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed