Lead Software Engineer- AWS Terraform -Infrastructure as Code; IaC)

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase Commercial and Investment Banking, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operability
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns (reusable modules, consistent standards, safe deployments)
• Improve CI/CD and deployment automation across services and environments
• 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.
• Own and improve observability
  : monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and actionable runbooks
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; drive high-quality postmortems and follow-through
• Partner closely with developers to improve system design, performance, and operational maturity
• Strengthen engineering quality via PR reviews
  , shared standards, and knowledge sharing

• A. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience on AWS:
  ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch, KMS
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Proficient in Terraform (modules, state management, work spaces)
• Advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code best practices (strong IaC and CI/CD patterns)
• Good hands on Networking fundamentals: load balancers, DNS, firewalls, VPNs ,
  Jenkins (pipelines, Groovy, shared libraries),
  Spinnaker (pipelines, deployment strategies, canary/blue-green), Git Ops workflows, Containers and orchestration:
  Docker, Kubernetes/EKS
• Artifact management:
  Nexus, ECR, JFrog
• Experience with Reliability, Observability, Security, Compliance, Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go , JSON and Restful API

• Good to have performance engineering basics
• nice to have Cost optimization experience (Fin Ops mindset)

JPMorgan

Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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,…