Lead Software Engineer - DevOps

JPMorgan Chase

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About The Position

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expertise with Gaia Kubernetes platform internals, operators, and ecosystem tools
• Advanced scripting in Groovy (Jenkins shared libraries)
• Deep experience building pipelines in Jenkins and Jules
• Proven track record implementing Spinnaker for safe, automated deployments
• Strong AWS skillset: compute, container services, networking, IAM
• Extensive Terraform usage at scale (module development, state management, CI integration)
• Strategic thinker with strong problem solving skills
• Passion for continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certification - Associate or Professional
• Background in monitoring/observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage Gaia Kubernetes clusters for production-scale container orchestration, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Jules, integrating automated testing, security scans, and quality gates
• Implement continuous delivery workflows in Spinnaker for blue/green and canary deployments
• Write reusable automation scripts and shared libraries in Groovy to streamline build and release processes
• Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure in AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, etc.)
• Author and maintain Terraform modules to enforce infrastructure as code best practices and enable repeatable, versioned deployments
• Collaborate with software development, QA, security, and operations teams to embed DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle
• Monitor system performance and reliability using industry-standard tools; proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks
• Coach and mentor junior engineers, conduct architecture and code reviews, and evangelize DevOps culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree