Lead Software Engineer - AWS SRE

Job Description

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As a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and community banking technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, create, and provide trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are in charge of conducting critical technology solutions spanning multiple technical areas within several business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job Responsibilities
 

• Dive into Live Site Management and cloud production management practices, covering production readiness, change governance, incident response, problem management, and operational risk reduction.
• Define and upgrade SRE practices, such as service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
• Advance observability over applications and infrastructure through effective logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and automated anomaly detection.
• Drive major incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and the systematic elimination of recurring production issues.
• Establish production health, availability, performance, and resiliency measures that give actionable insight to engineering and business leadership.
• Promote team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to enhance code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse of effective patterns over the team.
• Apply grasp of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, such as enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to strengthen the value realized through automation.
• Shape the end-to-end AWS cloud architecture strategy spanning all product components.
• Strengthen cloud cost strategy and optimization throughout the product.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Competencies 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Deep, broad AWS expertise spanning compute, data, networking, security, and observability, with proven production architecture experience.
• Systems thinking, such as the aptitude to reason about trade-offs, failure modes, and dependencies spanning an entire product.
• Strategic command of cost, scalability, automation, reliability, and AI integration as connected levers.
• Hands-on depth to validate and prototype ideas, not just advise.
• Proven experience overseeing cloud-hosted production services and leading Live Site Management practices in involved, business-critical environments.
• Sound SRE and observability expertise, such as SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, telemetry, distributed tracing, alert design, capacity management, and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated aptitude to lead high-severity incident response, undertake root-cause analysis, and drive durable remediation throughout multiple engineering teams.
• Experience establishing production readiness standards, operational controls, runbooks, dashboards, and measurable service health objectives.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, with the aptitude to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Sound understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, such as data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

This Lead Software Engineer - AWS SRE vacancy is based in Hyderabad.