Lead Software Engineer - DevOps/Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Columbus, OH

18h

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and 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

• 8+ years of hands‑on software/platform engineering experience, including leading cloud‑native delivery for business‑critical systems.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise (workloads, networking, security, autoscaling, upgrades, troubleshooting); experience operating clusters in production.
• Expert Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state backends, workspaces, CI integration, policy controls).
• Proficiency in Python for platform automation, tooling, and systems scripting; familiarity with Bash/YAML/Helm.
• Deep experience with CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker/Argo), artifact management, and automated testing strategies.
• Strong AWS/public cloud knowledge (VPC, ALB/NLB, ECR/EKS, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch/CloudTrail) and cloud networking fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and agile practices; champions secure coding, resiliency patterns, and release engineering.
• Observability at scale: Prometheus/Grafana, datadog, log aggregation (e.g., Splunk), actionable SLO/SLA monitoring.
• Demonstrated reduction of operational toil through automation and SRE practices (incident response, blameless postmortems, remediation).
• Practical experience applying agentic AI/LLM capabilities to DevSecOps use cases (e.g., assisted troubleshooting, code/IaC generation with review, runbook automation) with attention to accuracy, guardrails, and auditability.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills; ability to influence architecture and mentor engineers across teams.

Nice To Haves

• Programming & Scripting: Expert-level Python is mandatory, along with proficiency in Bash, Java, or C++ for building automation scripts.
• ML Frameworks & Tools: Hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn, plus MLOps tools like MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, or DVC.
• Infrastructure & Cloud: Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including serverless architectures, storage solutions, and network configuration.
• Containerization & DevOps: Expert skills in Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Monitoring & Reliability: Experience setting up monitoring for both infrastructure and models (drift detection, model accuracy) using Prometheus/Grafana.
• Database Systems: Proficiency in managing SQL/NoSQL databases to handle data for training and inference.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed