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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$62.75 - $83.25/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Production Management team, you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Plano, TX · On-site

$55 - $73/hr

They are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to define the future of site reliability within their Infrastructure Platforms, Web Hosting team, focusing on improving reliability and mentoring ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

O Fallon, MO · On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

Title and Summary Lead Site Reliability Engineer Summary Overview: Who is Mastercard? At Mastercard technology, we work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Charlotte, NC · On-site

$55.75 - $74/hr

Lead adoption of SRE principles, including: * SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets * Reliability engineering practices across services * Proactive monitoring and resilience design * Champion a shift from ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Charlotte, NC · On-site

$55.75 - $74/hr

Lead adoption of SRE principles, including: * SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets * Reliability engineering practices across services * Proactive monitoring and resilience design * Champion a shift from ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will combine deep technical expertise with team leadership to drive reliability across Empower's financial services platform. You will lead SREs in solving complex ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Plano, TX · On-site

$54.50 - $72.50/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Web Hosting team , you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$62.25 - $82.75/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology /Infrastructure Platforms Client Solutions (IPCS) team, you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate ...

As one of our Lead Site Reliability Engineers, you will combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic technical leadership across infrastructure and software development. You will own the ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Boston, MA · On-site

$62 - $82.25/hr

The Crown Is Yours As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you'll set the reliability standard across our Infrastructure Engineering organization. You'll define how we measure reliability for critical ...

Lead SRE Engineer

San Leandro, CA · On-site

$63 - $83.75/hr

Lead SRE Engineer San Leandro, CA 6 to 12+ Months Only USC & GC * Min 15+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering * With development background in Java microservices & Spring Web ...

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How much do lead sre jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 3, 2026, the average hourly pay for lead sre in the United States is $28.88, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $17.79 and $35.82 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Lead SRE?

Lead Site Reliability Engineers (Lead SREs) are senior technical professionals responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale systems and applications. They lead SRE teams, design and implement infrastructure improvements, and establish best practices for monitoring, incident response, and automation. Lead SREs also collaborate with development and operations teams to promote a culture of reliability and efficiency, often mentoring junior engineers and driving the adoption of SRE principles within an organization.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Lead SRE, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need deep expertise in systems administration, cloud infrastructure, automation, and a solid background in computer science or related fields. Familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, and monitoring platforms, along with certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, is highly valuable. Leadership, problem-solving, and clear communication are crucial soft skills for managing teams and collaborating across departments. These skills ensure reliable, scalable systems and efficient incident response, which are critical for maintaining high service availability.

What are some common challenges a Lead SRE faces when managing a team, and how can they be effectively addressed?

A Lead SRE often encounters challenges such as balancing incident response with long-term reliability projects, fostering collaboration between development and operations, and ensuring team members are upskilled on evolving technologies. To address these, it's helpful to implement structured incident management processes, encourage a blameless postmortem culture, and prioritize regular knowledge-sharing sessions. Proactively managing workloads and setting clear reliability targets can also help the team focus on both immediate and strategic goals.

Is a Lead SRE a stressful job?

A Lead SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) role can be stressful due to high responsibility for system uptime, incident management, and ensuring reliability at scale. The job often involves working under pressure, handling outages, and maintaining complex infrastructure, but it also offers opportunities for problem-solving and skill development. Effective communication, automation skills, and experience with monitoring tools can help manage stress levels.
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Infographic showing various Lead Sre job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 89% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 91% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 6% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $60,062 per year, or $28.9 per hour.

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Columbus, OH

$53.75 - $71.25/hr

Full-time

Medical, Retirement

Re-posted 12 days ago


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Job description

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 Enterprise technology, engineering services and platform team, you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple technical domains, and advise others on the technical and business issues facing them. 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

  • Guides and assists others in the areas of building appropriate level designs and gaining consensus from peers where appropriate
  • Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design and implement deployment approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
  • Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design, develop, test, and implement availability, reliability, scalability, and solutions in their applications
  • Implements infrastructure, configuration, and network as code for the applications and platforms in your remit
  • Collaborates with technical experts, key stakeholders, and team members to resolve complex problems
  • Understands service level indicators and utilizes service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact customers
  • Supports the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within your team
  • Production 24*7 support for business-critical applications
  • Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate major-incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
  • Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., CI/CD quality checks, test/validation automation, and operational readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
     

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on site reliability engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience 
  • Proficient in site reliability engineering (SRE) culture and principles, with experience implementing SRE practices within applications and platforms; strong observability background including white/black-box monitoring, SLO-based alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and similar.
  • Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java/Spring Boot,.NET) with strong knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline such as cloud, artificial intelligence, Android, or related areas.
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve SRE workflows (e.g., incident investigation support and knowledge capture) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
  • Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk, define appropriate guardrails for team usage, and ensure outcomes align to resiliency and security expectations.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab) and infrastructure automation using Terraform to build reliable, repeatable delivery pipelines.
  • Strong familiarity with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), including deploying, scaling, and operating containerized services in production.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve common networking issues (DNS, TCP/IP, routing, TLS, load balancing), applying structured debugging to restore service quickly.
  • Collaborative, proactive team contributor: communicates clearly and persuasively with minimal supervision, identifies roadblocks early, learns new technologies quickly, and has experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
 
  • Ability to identify new technologies and relevant solutions to ensure design constraints are met by the software team
  • Proven track record of initiating and executing ideas that address complex business challenges
  • Deep expertise in networking and systems, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPN technologies; strong Linux performance tuning and system-level troubleshooting skills
  • Certifications a plus: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Terraform Associate (or equivalent)
  • Collaborative leader with a proven track record mentoring junior engineers, driving SRE best-practice adoption across teams, and communicating clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders (including presentations)
  • Experience in handling critical incident and change management - be part of critical incident taskforce call.
  • Familiarity of agile practices - preferably, scrum and Kanban
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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