Lead Software Engineer- SRE/DevOps

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Employee Platform, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will utilize your extensive expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Observability, and automation to ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and efficient. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with cross-functional teams to promote best practices in site reliability engineering and DevOps.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SRE/DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members, ensuring high standards of performance and professional development.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions to monitor system performance, detect anomalies, and ensure uptime.
• Utilize tools such as Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Obserability stack, or similar to provide actionable insights and proactive issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Implement automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and updates.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates on system status, incidents, and improvements.

• Lead incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Hnads on experience in SRE/DevOps roles, with a strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Excellent scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Go).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar certifications.
• Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with security best practices and compliance standards.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)