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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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Houston, TX
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Houston, TX
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building highly available, scalable, and self-healing systems. The role focuses on AWS monitoring, logging, observability, Terraform-based infrastructure automation, security controls, compliance validation, CI/CD, and operational automation. The engineer will troubleshoot critical application and platform components, improve reliability, reduce toil, guide engineering teams, and champion site reliability practices across complex systems.
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As a Lead SRE at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking's Reconciliation team, you will play a crucial role in improving, developing, and delivering top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your skills and contributions will have a substantial impact on the business, and your profound technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies will be utilized to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities : 

  • Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing
  • Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS and implement/Enhance infrastructure automation via IaaC using Terraform
  • Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
  • Automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
  • Demonstrates site reliability principles and practices every day and champions the adoption of site reliability throughout the team
  • Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems that are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt
  • Works toward becoming an expert on the applications and platforms in your remit while understanding their interdependencies and limitations
  • Evolves and debug critical components of applications and platforms
  • Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growth

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Minimum 10 years of overall experience
  • Experience with automation tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  • Proficient with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

  • Experience in AWS
About Us
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

About the TeamJ.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. 

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