Senior Lead Site Reliability DevOps Engineer

Description

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch reliability and observability for our most critical platforms.

As a Senior Lead Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of reliability observability and performance challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction on site reliability practices to support the business and its technical teams contractors and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code for reliability tooling and telemetry pipelines and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence reliability design observability architecture application functionality and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of site reliability observability or telemetry engineering
• Leads resiliency design reviews and breaks up complex reliability problems into digestible work for other engineers acting as a technical lead for large-sized products
• Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents demonstrating the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses and champions blameless postmortem culture
• Collaborates with team members and stakeholders to define comprehensive service level indicators service level objectives and error budgets
• Designs implements and maintains operational reliability for large-scale OpenTelemetry pipelines on hybrid on-prem/cloud environments supporting telemetry ingestion processing and export to backends such as InfluxDB Prometheus Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
• Drives the assessment refactoring and incremental migration of custom legacy telemetry collection code to standardized OpenTelemetry instrumentation reducing technical debt while maintaining system stability
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks tools and practices and influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge observability and reliability technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge of reliability scalability performance security enterprise system architecture toil reduction and other site reliability best practices with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g. cloud observability distributed systems etc.)
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java Python Go etc.)
• Advanced proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring SLO alerting and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana Dynatrace Prometheus Datadog Splunk Elasticsearch etc.
• 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.)
• Hands-on experience with the design deployment and operation of OpenTelemetry collectors in production environments focusing on technical aspects such as configuring optimizing and troubleshooting OTLP endpoints and receivers
• Ability to tackle reliability design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

• Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Knowledge of distributed tracing metrics and logging best practices
• Certification in AWS Kubernetes or relevant technologies
• Proven track record in system health monitoring capacity management and blameless postmortems for high-availability services
• Deep understanding of distributed system design principles networking (TCP/IP DNS load balancing) and Linux internals
• Contributions to open-source observability or telemetry projects
• Experience working with agent control planes and management protocols; hands-on knowledge of OpAMP is highly desirable

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1