Senior Lead Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch reliability and observability for our most critical platforms.

As a Senior Lead Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of reliability, observability, and performance challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction on site reliability practices to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Develops secure and high-quality production code for reliability tooling and telemetry pipelines, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Drives decisions that influence reliability design, observability architecture, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of site reliability, observability, or telemetry engineering

• Leads resiliency design reviews and breaks up complex reliability problems into digestible work for other engineers, acting as a technical lead for large-sized products

• Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents, demonstrating the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses, and champions blameless postmortem culture

• Collaborates with team members and stakeholders to define comprehensive service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets

• Designs, implements, and maintains operational reliability for large-scale OpenTelemetry pipelines on hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, supporting telemetry ingestion, processing, and export to backends such as InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch

• Drives the assessment, refactoring, and incremental migration of custom legacy telemetry collection code to standardized OpenTelemetry instrumentation, reducing technical debt while maintaining system stability

• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices, and influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge observability and reliability technologies

• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability