Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• We expect formal training or certification in software engineering concepts plus 5+ years of applied experience.
• We need experience in SRE, DevOps, production engineering, or a similar discipline.
• We require hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads, including deployments, scaling, and debugging.
• We expect practical production experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3.
• We value experience with CI/CD and release tools such as Spinnaker and/or Harness.
• We need proficiency with Terraform and scripting or automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
• We look for strong incident response capability, RCA writing, and the ability to drive remediation work.
• We require solid knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.
• We need the ability to independently deliver well-scoped reliability work and escalate when appropriate.
• We expect working knowledge of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in the workplace, with strong validation habits and sensitivity to data handling requirements.
• We require the ability to validate AI-assisted operational recommendations before making changes and to escalate when uncertain.

• We own production reliability outcomes by tracking operational health, identifying risks early, and driving fixes.
• We define and refine SLIs and SLOs, manage error budgets, and improve alerting so it is actionable and less noisy.
• We enhance observability and troubleshooting across Kubernetes and AWS by improving metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and runbooks.
• We lead incident response and problem management, including on-call support, mitigation, recovery, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions.
• We operate Kubernetes workloads, including autoscaling, rollout and rollback procedures, resource tuning, and resilience patterns.
• We run AWS container and serverless components with an emphasis on scale, retries, and safe failure behavior.
• We improve release engineering and delivery reliability using Spinnaker and Harness.
• We build infrastructure as code and maintain Terraform modules and automation for consistent environments.
• We strengthen database and data-service reliability across technologies and services such as DynamoDB and S3.
• We embed security and control requirements into our operational processes.
• We lead small to medium initiatives end to end, from proposal through production adoption, while using approved AI capabilities to accelerate triage and reduce toil.

• AI
• AWS
• Lambda
• Bash
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LESS
• Linux
• Python
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform
• Cloud
• Web

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hackajob is partnering with J.P. Morgan to connect with exceptional professionals for this Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer opportunity within JPMorgan Chases Commercial Investment Banking team in Fraud Prevention. In this role, we focus on modernizing complex, mission-critical systems and improving reliability, security, performance, and resilience across Kubernetes-based environments and AWS. We offer a competitive total rewards package, with compensation based on role, experience, skills, and location, along with a broad range of benefits and programs that may include comprehensive health coverage, wellness resources, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching. JPMorganChase is a global financial institution with a long history and a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. The broader Commercial & Investment Bank is a worldwide leader in banking, markets, securities services, and payments, supporting corporations, governments, and institutions in more than 100 countries.

last updated 42 week of 2026