As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Finance Technology, you work with your fellow stakeholders to define non-functional requirements (NFRs) and availability targets for the services in your application and product lines. You will ensure those NFRs are accounted for in your products’ design and test phases, that your service level indicators are effectively measuring customer experience, and that service level objectives are defined with stakeholders and implemented in production. Take lead and conduct resiliency design reviews, break up complex problems into digestible work for other engineers, act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products, and provide advice and mentoring to other engineers. 

Job responsibilities

• Creates high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters that are delivered by you or the engineers under your guidance
• Provides advice and mentoring to other engineers and acts as a key resource for technologists seeking advice on technical and business-related issues
• Demonstrates site reliability principles and practices every day and champions the adoption of site reliability throughout your 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
• Makes significant contributions to JPMorgan Chase’s site reliability community via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years Site reliability engineering experience in Spark, AWS, Python / Java programming
• Advanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, .Net, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methods
• Recognized as an active contributor of the engineering community
• Continues to expand network and leads evaluation sessions with vendors to see how offerings can fit into the firm’s strategy
• Ability to anticipate, identify, and troubleshoot defects found during testing
• Strong communication skills with ability to mentor and educate others on site reliability principles and practices

• Experience in banking domain
• Experience in code level