Site Reliability Engineer AWS
Posted 3 days ago by J.P. Morgan
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineer AWS role at JPMorgan Chase Bank involves designing, building, testing, and delivering software enhancements while fostering a DevOps culture. The position requires troubleshooting, incident management, and collaboration with infrastructure teams to ensure operational stability and reliability. Candidates should possess strong programming skills and experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS. This is a contract position based in London, requiring on-site work for a duration of six months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and deliver software enhancements while promoting a DevOps culture.
- Troubleshoot issues, manage incidents, and communicate with stakeholders.
- Lead blameless post-mortems and drive long-term corrective actions.
- Define and monitor application analytics to support improved service-level objectives.
- Follow change-management and release processes while accelerating automation.
- Run resiliency management planning and execution of disaster recovery tests.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and SRE teams to streamline systems and support on-call production.
Key Skills:
- Proficient in Python, Unix Shell scripting, and SQL.
- Experience with development tools such as source code control software, automated build, and CI/CD.
- Experience with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Understanding of SRE practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
- Experience managing large-scale application/system configurations.
- Familiarity with declarative frameworks (Puppet, Terraform).
- Strong programming and software design skills, preferably in Python.
- Familiarity with modern architectures and tools, including microservices and Docker.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Site Reliability Engineer AWS
Location: London
Role Type: Contract - 6 months
Work Setup: Onsite
Who we are
JPMorgan Chase Bank is a leading global financial services firm, providing innovative solutions in investment banking, asset management, and financial technology. As an employer, it offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment that encourages professional growth, collaboration, and the opportunity to work on impactful projects with cutting-edge technology and industry-leading teams.
What you'll do:
- Design, build, test, and deliver software enhancements while promoting a DevOps culture, contributing across the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational stability.
- Troubleshoot issues, manage incidents, communicate with stakeholders, lead blameless post-mortems, and drive long-term corrective actions.
- Define and monitor application analytics to support improved service-level objectives, product observability and telemetry and modernization efforts.
- Follow change-management and release processes while accelerate automation.
- Run resiliency management planning, scheduling and execution of disaster recovery tests, aiming to automate where possible.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and SRE teams to streamline systems and support on-call production outside regular hours.
What You Bring:
- Proficient in Python, Unix Shell scripting, and SQL, with experience in relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with development tools: source code control software, automated build, automated testing and JIRA, build automation, test-driven development, and CI/CD
- Experience with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Understanding of SRE practices (SLO/SLI/SLA, error budgets) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Experience managing large-scale application/system configurations (thousands of nodes).
- Familiarity with declarative frameworks (Puppet, Terraform).
- Strong programming and software design skills, preferably in Python, with knowledge of APIs, security, authentication, data structures, and principles like DDD, SOLID, and GRASP.
- Familiarity with modern architectures and tools, including microservices, REST API development, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD integration.
What's Next:
If you are ready to take the next step, apply now. Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more. We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at adjustments@robertwalters.com to discuss how we can support you.
This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.