Lead Software Engineer - DevOps​/Cloud

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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.

• 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

• 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, work spaces, 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, Cloud Watch/Cloud Trail) 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 Dev Sec Ops  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.

• 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 Tensor Flow, 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 & Dev Ops: Expert skills in Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Helm, Git Ops, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab 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/No
  
  SQL databases to handle data for training and inference.