Lead Site Reliability Engineer | London, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. London, United Kingdom

Job Description

Theres nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skillsets to drive innovation and modernize the worlds most complex and mission-critical systems.

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the SRE Payments Technology Team in the Corporate & Investment Bank line of business, you will solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions. Through code and (Private and Public) cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize applications and their associated infrastructure to independently decompose and iteratively improve on existing solutions. You are a significant contributor to your team by sharing your knowledge of end-to-end operations, availability, reliability, and scalability of your application or platform.

Job responsibilities

  • Guides and assists others in the areas of building appropriate level designs and gaining consensus from peers where appropriate
  • Experience with Technical Observability - Dynatrace or Datadog tool would be very useful. Also, expertise with distributed traces would be beneficial.
  • Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design and implement deployment approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
  • Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design, develop, test, and implement availability, reliability, scalability, and solutions in their applications
  • Implements infrastructure, configuration, and network as code for the applications and platforms in your remit
  • Collaborates with technical experts, key stakeholders, and team members to resolve complex problems
  • Understands service level indicators and utilizes service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact customers
  • Supports the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within your team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Proficient knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a given technical discipline (e.g., Cloud, artificial intelligence, Android, etc.)
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or Terraform
  • Familiarity with container and container orchestration such as ECS, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • Familiarity with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
  • Ability to contribute to large and collaborative teams by presenting information in a logical and timely manner with compelling language and limited supervision
  • Ability to proactively recognize road blocks and demonstrates interest in learning technology that facilitates innovation
  • Ability to identify new technologies and relevant solutions to ensure design constraints are met by the software team
  • Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Proficient in site reliability culture and principles and familiarity with how to implement site reliability within an application or platform
  • Have a developer Background and Proficient in at least one programming language such as Python, Java/Spring Boot etc
  • Experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and others

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the worlds most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

About the Team

J.P. Morgans 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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