Principal Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Principal Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering team at JPMorgan Chase. Lead the multi-year technical roadmap and architectural strategy for platform engineering, mentor senior engineers, translate technical decisions into business impact for product, business, and security stakeholders, design and deliver scalable and secure infrastructure, own production stability with automation and SLO/DORA metrics, drive architectural standards, and champion FinOps for cloud cost optimization while tuning distributed systems.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification (e.g., BSc, CKAD, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
- Expert-level administration of a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Mastery of Kubernetes administration and operator patterns
- Strong cloud networking expertise across the OSI networking model
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies
- Proven, hands-on experience in system design, development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in modern language(s) (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin)
- Demonstrated technical leadership and cross-team collaboration
- Hands-on Security Engineering experience
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