Lead Site Reliability Engineer - AWS

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 Kinexys Cloud Platform on AWS, you will play a pivotal leadership role in your team, showcasing expertise across various technical domains and offering guidance on both technical and business challenges. You will lead resiliency design reviews, deconstruct complex problems into manageable tasks for other engineers, serve as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products, and provide advice and mentorship to fellow engineers.

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team's applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
• Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
• Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise
• Provides sound recommendations to improve and implement best practices that support the cloud strategy and application adoptions.
• Leverages core AWS services such as VPC, PrivateLink, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, EFS, and Lambda to build scalable and efficient cloud solutions.
• Participates in both internal and external technology forums related to Terraform, Kubernetes, and DevOps/GitOps initiatives to stay abreast of the latest trends and technologies.
• Leads the adoption of industry best practices and approaches for implementing DevOps principles, specifically focusing on Kubernetes infrastructure provisioning on public cloud.
• Defines and develops declarative modules for infrastructure provisioning using Terraform Enterprise to support the design, build, and implementation of the Kinexys Cloud Platform on AWS.
• Engages in hands-on keyboard coding to develop and implement cloud infrastructure solutions.
  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, PrivateLink, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, EFS, Lambda).
• Expertise in infrastructure provisioning using Terraform Enterprise and developing declarative modules.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes infrastructure provisioning and management on public cloud.
• Proficiency in designing and implementation of secure, scalable, and efficient networking solutions, including multi-region enablement.
• Experience in Implementing cybersecurity standards, best practices, and solutions for high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Proven experience with DevOps methodologies, GitOps practices, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java) for automation and development.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, teamwork, and communication skills (written and verbal).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Certifications: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, networking, cybersecurity, or cloud resiliency certifications.
• CI/CD & Automation Tools: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, Harness).
• Multi-Cloud Experience: Experience with other cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud.