Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in New Jersey
Site Reliability Engineer jobs in New Jersey are in strong and consistent demand, concentrated in financial services, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications across the full range from entry-level SRE to principal engineer. Newark, Jersey City, and Princeton are the primary hiring centers, anchored by established employers such as JPMorgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, and Verizon. The most sought-after specialties in New Jersey listings are Kubernetes and container orchestration, cloud infrastructure automation on AWS and GCP, and observability engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Date live: 08/12/2026
Business Area: Chief Technology Office
Area of Expertise: Technology
Contract: Permanent
Reference Code: JR-0000122988
Salary / Rate $ 120,000.00 - $ 175,000.00
Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernizing our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.
To be successful as a Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM, you should have:
Experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and running highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling, and auto-healing systems
Experience with AWS (essential); Azure and GCP are a plus. Familiarity with Kubernetes (ECS is essential; Fargate and GCE are a plus) and serverless architectures
Experience in running disaster recovery and zero-downtime solutions, and in designing and implementing continuous delivery across large-scale, distributed, cloud-based microservices and API service solutions with 99.9%+ uptime
Exposure to coding in Python, Bash, and JSON/YAML (Configuration as Code)
The ability to drive reliability best practices across engineering teams, embed SRE principles into the DevSecOps lifecycle, and partner with engineering, security, and product teams to balance reliability and feature velocity
Some other highly desirable skills include:
Experience in configuration, deployment, and operation of ForgeRock COTS-based IAM solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS) with embedded security gates
Experience with HTTP header signing, access token and data-at-rest encryption, PKI-based self-sovereign identity, or open-source equivalents
Cloud Infrastructure Management
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is in our Whippany, NJ office.
Minimum Salary: $120,000
Maximum Salary: $175,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.
Purpose of the role
To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.
Accountabilities
- Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
- Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
- Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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Site Reliability Engineer Job Market in New Jersey
A snapshot from current New Jersey openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Rad Hires10

- JPMorganChase5

- Quest Diagnostics2

- Optum1

- Exiger1

Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Banking & Financial Services
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What New Jersey Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in site reliability engineer jobs across New Jersey.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong scripting ability in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible
Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in New Jersey: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a site reliability engineer in New Jersey?
Site reliability engineering has no state-issued license in New Jersey, so the path centers on education and demonstrated technical skill. Most hiring managers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, though some New Jersey employers in financial services and telecom accept candidates with associate degrees paired with strong cloud and automation portfolios. Industry certifications from AWS, Google Cloud, or the Linux Foundation carry meaningful weight in the New Jersey market and can substitute for a year of direct SRE experience.
Which companies hire site reliability engineers in New Jersey?
Employers hiring site reliability engineers in New Jersey right now include Rad Hires, JPMorganChase, and Quest Diagnostics, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. New Jersey's dense concentration of financial services firms, global pharmaceutical companies, and major telecommunications providers means SRE demand here is broad and relatively stable year-round.
Which New Jersey cities have the most site reliability engineer jobs?
Jersey City, Secaucus, and Camden have the most site reliability engineer openings in New Jersey. Jersey City and Newark benefit from their proximity to the New York financial corridor, drawing heavy demand from banking and fintech operations, while Princeton and the Route 1 corridor pull listings from pharmaceutical and biotech firms that run large internal engineering organizations.
Are there remote site reliability engineer jobs in New Jersey?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 82% of site reliability engineer openings tied to New Jersey are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how naturally the role lends itself to distributed work. The most consistently remote sub-areas are cloud infrastructure management, on-call automation, and tooling development, while roles involving direct data-center or co-location work in northern New Jersey facilities tend to require at least partial on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a site reliability engineer in New Jersey with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a junior DevOps or cloud operations role, which several large New Jersey employers use as a feeder into SRE teams. Financial firms in Jersey City and telecom companies in Basking Ridge regularly hire associates and recent graduates into infrastructure operations rotations. Building a public portfolio of Terraform modules or Kubernetes lab projects, combined with an AWS Cloud Practitioner or Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification, gives candidates a concrete edge over others at the same experience level.
Where can I find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in New Jersey?
You can find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in New Jersey on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings for roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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