Lead Software Engineer - DevOps/Cloud
On-site · Columbus, Ohio, United States
Job Summary
Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase (Consumer and Community Banking) responsible for driving cloud-native software delivery, secure production code, and automated remediation at scale. The role emphasizes Kubernetes-based operations, Terraform-based IaC, Python automation, robust CI/CD pipelines, and AWS cloud architecture. It requires guiding architectural decisions, leading communities of practice, mentoring engineers, and integrating agentic AI/LLM capabilities to enhance DevSecOps workflows. The position calls for strong leadership, collaboration with external vendors and internal teams, and a focus on secure coding, resiliency, and observability across production systems.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
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