DevOps Senior Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking Team, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors


• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes


• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle


• Develop the reliability process to ensure the highest level of systems availability, stability, security and performance, including maintenance and support, root cause analysis, systems validation, performance tuning and capacity management.


• Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to identify and implement solutions that meet production, development, and administrative needs in Linux-based environments


• Identify changes for the product architecture from the reliability, performance, and availability perspective with a data driven approach


• Strong interest in SRE topics like SLOs, resilience, scaling, performance, automation and more


• Own and suggest improvements to our deployment process and tools


• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in application and infrastructure operations via simplification and automation.


• Coordinate between infrastructure, platform and application subject matter experts to promote reliability efforts through communication and best practice sharing.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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


• Advanced experience in writing/reading C++ and Python code


• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight; Willing to take a task from gathering requirements to deployment and maintenance


• Proficient with configuration management and build tools and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins, Weave, AIM


• Experience championing new technologies/processes, architected their design, implementation and delivery to production


• Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover


• Identify problem or opportunity areas, develop and implement fixes and changes as necessary


• Collaborate effectively with various teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Leadership


• Willing to mentor and guide fellow team members effectively and constructively in a wide variety of disciplines, both technical and business-like in nature


• Proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure and experience primarily Trading based application (Linux based)


• Ability to design, build, and troubleshoot large scale distributed systems

• Exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS


• Knowledge of Electronic Trading and Equities, Futures, and Options Exchange Connectivity in global markets is desirable