Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Cloud Foundational Services Public Cloud Engineering organisation, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver high quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, your knowledge and contributions will significantly influence the business, and your deep technical comprehension and problem-solving abilities will be utilized to tackle a broad spectrum of challenges across diverse technologies and applications.

Job 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
• Influences peers and thought leaders to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Ensures compliance with security and regulatory requirements for the cloud
• Collaborates with other cloud platform engineering teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud
  
  

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification in Computer Science or as a technical architect with 5+ years of applied experience in AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, Route53, ELB), Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and practical cloud-native experience.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, including CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins and Spinnaker.
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, particularly Python or Go, and proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience with sentinel policy, knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments, and a strong understanding of networking concepts, including DNS and load balancing
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile) and in-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• An AWS Certification such AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or AWS Certified Developer.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Experience with other cloud providers such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience using the vCluster platform
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• An AWS Certification such AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or AWS Certified Developer.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Experience with other cloud providers such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience using the vCluster platform
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies.
  
  

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.