Senior Director of SRE

Greater London
Full time
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JP Morgan
Banking, investment & finance
10,001+ employees
412 jobs
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Join a globally recognized financial organization and advance your profession to new heights by contributing to revolutionary projects. You've discovered the perfect environment to have a major impact.

As a Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology's Market Risk Technology team, you will utilize your advanced knowledge to identify new opportunities that can impact critical incident management and enhance the overall lifecycle of software development within the firm. This role provides you with the opportunity to manage, design, and implement infrastructure components that boost reliability and promote operational efficiency

Job responsibilities

  • Lead the Market Risk SRE function, supporting all applications across the Market Risk function.
  • You will have functional line management for all the support teams in Market Risk Technology.
  • Develops and implement frameworks to provide oversight of the Market Risk Technology production ecosystem.
  • Drives the evolution of the Market Risk SRE organisation – from creation of SLO/SLA/SLI, thorough observability, calculating error budgets, and actively driving toil reduction.
  • Promote the optimisation of the Run costs across Market Risk Technology, being accountable for the results
  • Works with development teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle to ensure sustainable software releases.
  • Leads medium to large projects by bringing together the proper perspective, identifying roadblocks, and integrating feedback from team members and subject matter experts at the firm.
  • Participates in support responsibilities for coverage of critical applications.
  • Sees problems as opportunities to improve.
  • Identifies and solves problems of high complexity.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expert applied experience.
  • Experience working in an organisation with formal SRE functions.
  • Experience creating or transforming an SRE organisation at a large firm.
  • An innovative leader, able to lead by example and help teams evolve the culture to the SRE mindset.
  • Background in software development.
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines.
  • Ability to determine how each system relates to each other and use breadth of tools to build automation to improve reliability for the firm.
  • Understands and leads partnerships across job functions (e.g., Cybersecurity and Data) to develop efficient and developer-friendly systems.
  • Engages team members and expresses complex ideas with appropriate level of detail, while also providing constructive feedback.
  • Ability to engage team members and express complex ideas with appropriate level of detail, while also providing constructive feedback.
  • Strong communication and organisational skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Experience working in finance or another highly regulated industry.
  • Experience with large interconnected systems and grid compute platforms.
  • Experience with Market, Credit or Liquidity Risk functions.