Bank of America Corporation

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Bank of America Corporation$152K — $191K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in platform, systems, or infrastructure engineering focusing on automation
  • Experience transforming traditional operations to modern engineering-led models using SRE, observability, and AIOps
  • Proven implementation of SRE principles like SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Hands-on design of enterprise observability solutions with metrics, logs, and monitoring
  • Experience reducing operational toil via automation and event-driven remediation
  • Ability to identify inefficiencies and improve system availability and operational effectiveness
  • Collaborative experience with infrastructure, application, and security teams to develop reliability standards.

Responsibilities

  • Designs solutions for production support metrics to enable operational readiness
  • Develops software or processes to eliminate identified 'toil' in reliability tasks
  • Partners with teams to prioritize reliability stories under SLO thresholds
  • Identifies capacity bottlenecks and opportunities for reliability improvements
  • Assesses monitoring tools for new changes and enhances monitoring designs
  • Engages in incident triage and root cause analysis for high-impact issues
  • Collaborates to create SLIs and SLOs for service reliability measurement.
  • Champions modern SRE practices through automation and operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Access to industry-leading benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Resources and support for employee impact
  • Opportunities to contribute to community growth
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for partnering with leaders across engineering and technology to define objective reliability goals for services. Key responsibilities include composing observability designs through instrumentation and dashboards, identifying root causes of complex/impactful issues, partnering with cross functional teams to deliver sustainable design patterns, and driving early adoption of non-functional production support requirements. Job expectations include automating services to improve reliability and efficiency and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Position Summary:

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer acts as an advanced senior individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and maturing reliability engineering capabilities. The role focuses on complex technical problem solving, reliability architecture, automation strategy, observability maturity, platform resiliency, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate has experience driving the evolution of traditional infrastructure operations toward a modern reliability engineering model through automation, observability, AIOps, and engineering-first operational practices that improve service reliability and reduce operational toil.

Responsibilities:
  • Designs solutions to visualize key production support metrics enabling Operational Readiness and Site Reliability Engineer teams to identify scenarios requiring intervention
  • Develops software solutions and/or improved processes to address work identified as 'toil' by collaborating with key partners to identify, track and remediate processes to free time allocated to reliability
  • Partners with Development and Infrastructure teams to create error budget policies prioritizing reliability stories that fall below Service Level Objective (SLO) thresholds and suggests code optimizations, additional instrumentation and/or logging structures to gain service reliability visibility
  • Identifies and plans for capacity bottlenecks, vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement, such as low level error rates and 'noise', and reduces manual support effort and/or improves system reliability
  • Assesses monitoring for new changes with development partners and works with monitoring tools team to monitor dashboards and enhance application and system monitoring designs
  • Engages as a subject matter expert in incident triage efforts, failure scenario modelling and works with the Problem Manager to diagnose root causes for complex/high impact incident/problem management investigations
  • Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and develop Service Level Indicators and SLOs to measure/improve the reliability of the services they support
  • Champions modern SRE, observability, and AIOps practices by driving automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence across platform services.
  • Leads intelligent operations initiatives, including automated remediation, predictive monitoring, event correlation, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Serves as a senior technical authority for platform reliability, resiliency, observability, automation, and production readiness, while leading key initiatives such as secondary-region readiness, network observability, GenAI platform health monitoring, and enterprise dashboard automation.
  • Defines and matures SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, and service health reporting across on-premises and cloud platforms.
  • Develops reusable IaC modules, automation frameworks, and CI/CD patterns to improve consistency, compliance, and operational quality. Identifies reliability risks, drives remediation and automation strategies, leads major incident investigations, and partners with security and governance teams to embed IAM, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, and audit readiness into cloud operations.


Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience in platform, systems, or infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on automation and integration.
  • Demonstrated experience transforming traditional infrastructure operations, systems administration, or platform support functions into modern engineering-led operating models utilizing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, automation, and AIOps practices.
  • Proven experience implementing and operationalizing SRE principles, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, reliability metrics, incident management modernization, and continuous service improvement programs.
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise observability solutions leveraging metrics, logs, traces, telemetry, synthetic monitoring, and service health analytics to improve operational visibility and platform reliability.
  • Experience reducing operational toil through automation, self-healing capabilities, event-driven remediation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and intelligent operational workflows.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify operational inefficiencies and drive engineering solutions that improve availability, resiliency, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
  • Experience partnering with infrastructure, application, security, and platform teams to establish reliability engineering standards, observability frameworks, production readiness requirements, and operational best practices.


Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience driving organizational adoption of SRE culture and practices, including operational maturity assessments, reliability reviews, automation programs, post-incident learning, and engineering enablement.
  • Experience supporting or implementing AIOps platforms and capabilities, including event correlation, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, automated remediation, noise reduction, and operational intelligence.
  • Experience with modern observability platforms.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms
  • Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Prior experience mentoring or leading engineering operations teams


Skills:
  • Architecture
  • Collaboration
  • Innovative Thinking
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Design
  • Adaptability
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Influence
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Other
  • Resource Management
  • Financial and Succession Planning


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$152,600.00 - $191,500.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

Bank of America Corporation Careers

Join the dynamic team at Bank of America Corporation, a premier global financial institution where innovation, leadership, and growth go hand in hand. As one of the largest banks in the world, we offer unparalleled job opportunities and a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and professional growth. Work You’ll Do At Bank of America Corporation, you’ll be part of a team that’s dedicated to making a real difference. Whether you’re helping families buy their first home, advising businesses on expansion, or developing cutting-edge financial technologies, your work will have an impact. Our commitment to leadership in the financial industry has never been stronger, and we need passionate, skilled professionals to lead our journey. Explore a World of Opportunities From entry-level positions to leadership roles, Bank of America Corporation offers a variety of career paths in areas such as investment banking, technology, marketing, and risk management. Our job opportunities span the globe, providing the chance to work alongside the best in the industry and develop skills that will propel your career forward. Internship Programs Kickstart your career with Bank of America Corporation’s internship programs. These opportunities provide hands-on experience and a chance to engage in meaningful work that complements your academic studies. Interns gain invaluable networking opportunities, receive mentorship from seasoned professionals, and learn about the culture and operations of a global financial leader. Benefits and Growth Bank of America Corporation is committed to the well-being and continuous professional development of our team members. We offer a competitive benefits package that supports the health, financial stability, and work-life balance of our employees. Our training programs and development initiatives ensure that every team member has the opportunity to grow and advance within the company. Inclusive Culture We believe our strength lies in our diversity. Bank of America Corporation fosters an inclusive environment where all employees can thrive. Through diversity training and a commitment to equal opportunities, we cultivate leadership and innovation that reflect the wide-ranging communities we serve. Join Our Team Are you ready to advance your career at a company that’s at the forefront of the financial industry? Explore the positions available at Bank of America Corporation and find where your skills and interests align with our needs. We are continuously hiring and looking for individuals who are curious, creative, and eager to drive change. Stay Connected Keep up to date with the latest from Bank of America Corporation Careers by subscribing to our job alert emails. Tailor your subscription to receive updates that match your career interests and get insider tips that can help you during your application and interview process. Bank of America Corporation is not just a company—it’s a place where you can shape your future and the future of finance. Join us and be part of a team that’s redefining what a bank can be.
Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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