Lead Software Engineer - DevOps​/Cloud Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, 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.

This role combines software engineering, Dev Ops, and cloud engineering. Our technology set is wide and keeps changing, so you will be expected to pick up new services quickly and automate wherever you can.

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leverages Dev Ops tools to build, deploy, and operate a cloud-based orchestration platform, infrastructure as code, and automated compliance capabilities, keeping delivery automated and elastic
• Leads the design and development of new cloud implementations, with strategies for end-to-end automation, architecture design, performance and monitoring, proofs of concept, and transition to operations
• Creates automated functional, performance, resiliency, and end-to-end tests and makes them required quality gates in the pipeline
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to the business and its technical teams, mentors engineers, and leads communities of practice across Software Engineering
• Learns new technologies and services quickly as the platform evolves, and delivers production-ready work on them with minimal ramp-up
• Builds the tooling that lets an environment owner diagnose why their environment is unhealthy in production and fix it themselves

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s):
  Java, Python, or Go
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Practical cloud native experience
• Expertise with AWS infrastructure such as networking, EC2, Lambda, serverless solutions, VPC, Route 53, auto scaling, Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, storage services, and containers (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
• Proficient in core concepts for networking, public cloud architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with hands-on Terraform experience
• Expertise in designing and developing complex…