Lead Engineer - Software Defined Infrastructure

Greater London
Full time
Posted
employer logo
JP Morgan
Banking, investment & finance
10,001+ employees
491 jobs
Apply on company site

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundational Services 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. You will build a technologist friendly next generation, segmented, Software Defined Network and Private Cloud Foundational Infrastructure. You'll join a collaborative multi-disciplinary team is composed of mission oriented Product Managers, Engineers, Solution Architects, and Technical Program Managers.

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
  • Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  • Applies deep technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to analyze complex data/systems, anticipate issues, and mitigate risks
  • Works with other Engineering teams and platforms to architect and rapidly iterate on designs, patterns, or changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
  • Solves problems, not deliver fixes and provides technical guidance and strategic direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • Advanced knowledge of Reliability Engineering, testing automation, one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc), Software Defined Networks & Network Security domain knowledge including VNFs, CNFs, CNIs (Cilium, OVH, Calico, etc), SASE, Micro and Macro Segmentation/Zero Trust; and other infrastructure technologies (e.g., hardware, databases, storage, identity, cloud infrastructure)
  • Hyper-scaling in a enterprise cloud environment


Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience with secure coding, AppSec, threat modeling, code testing, third party cyber security controls / testing, threat / risk assessment, vulnerabilities/weaknesses, and penetration testing (for Security Engineers)
  • Network domain / engineering experience with underlay and overlay topologies at scale. Experience with Policy as code frameworks / tooling (OPA, Kyverno, etc)
  • Experience to rapidly evolving start up style organizations within a large regulated firm