Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer on JPMorgan Chase's Audit Technology Production Management team in Jersey City, NJ, owning stability and resiliency of business-critical platforms, leading major incident response and RCA, and expanding SRE practices (Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, ITIL) including AI-assisted reliability workflows.
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 Audit Technology, Production Management team, 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
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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
Base Pay/Salary
Jersey City,NJ $175,750.00 - $260,000.00 / year
As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Audit Technology, Production Management team, 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
- Lead the Production Management team supporting Audit and Credit Review, setting direction, priorities, and performance expectations.
- Own stability, availability, resiliency, and end-to-end operational performance of business-critical Sales platforms, with clear accountability for outcomes.
- Act as a senior escalation point during critical incidents, driving rapid triage, decisive coordination, and recovery actions aligned to business impact.
- Drive operational consistency and service maturity through standardization, governance participation, service reviews, and disciplined support model integration for new capabilities.
- Lead reliability improvements by applying systems thinking and root-cause practices, expanding SRE adoption (observability, monitoring, automation, operational analytics), and improving supportability with engineering teams.
- Run strong incident, problem, and change management-major incident response, RCA and remediation to eliminate recurrence, and ensuring changes meet readiness standards (testing, monitoring, and resiliency/DR validation).
- Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate major-incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
- Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., CI/CD quality checks, test/validation automation, and operational readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve SRE workflows (e.g., incident investigation support and knowledge capture) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk, define appropriate guardrails for team usage, and ensure outcomes align to resiliency and security expectations.
- Leadership experience across Production Support, Production Management, SRE, and Technology Operations teams, delivering stable and resilient production services.
- Strong systems thinking and problem-solving capability to assess complex, cross-domain production issues and drive end-to-end resolution.
- Demonstrated major incident leadership, coordinating effectively across teams to restore service rapidly and drive root-cause remediation.
- Track record of partnering with Application Development, Product, Sales, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, service quality, and operational maturity.
- Strong observability and service management expertise (Dynatrace, Splunk, Geneos, Grafana; ITIL Incident/Problem/Change/Availability), with excellent verbal/written communication and people leadership.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated experience integrating support teams and standardizing operating models across multiple application groups to drive consistency and service maturity.
- Hands-on technology experience across cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), automation and scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform), and modern distributed platforms (containers, microservices, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
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
Base Pay/Salary
Jersey City,NJ $175,750.00 - $260,000.00 / year