You will work within a team, engaging with Product team members to help build and reinforce the Cloud mindset and to embed cloud practices in the day-to-day work. Examples include creating the design infrastructure for new features on the cloud, Infrastructure as code, best database to use in the scenario, cost-optimized infrastructure choices, security as day zero practice, and attaining dark data center as a principal.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Services team, you will be instrumental in fostering a cloud-centric mindset and integrating cloud practices into daily operations. Your responsibilities will encompass designing infrastructure for new cloud features, implementing Infrastructure as Code, determining the most suitable database for given scenarios, making cost-effective infrastructure decisions, prioritizing security from the outset, and striving to achieve a dark data center as a fundamental principle.
Job Responsibilities
- Be part of Agile rituals like Feature elaboration/Estimation, daily stand-ups, release planning, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective, Showcase, etc.
- Maintain Product Infrastructure using reusable clean code and one-click deployment methodologies. Creating technical design specs for multi-region across availability zone deployments.
- Work on clustering strategies of NoSQL Databases and implementing the latest features by rolling upgrades ensuring higher availability.
- Create testing platforms for the Infrastructure code for ensuring high availability using unit and regression tests for infrastructure code.
- Ensure that security is a priority, maintaining compliance with standards like PCI and performing relevant tests.
- Write libraries and plugins for the open-source products and tools used by the team using Python, C#, Java, etc.
- Evaluate the latest technology releases to ensure that the Product is always utilizing the best platform.
- Gatekeep development process and quality by ensuring that best practices are followed.
- Coach, train, and mentor to improve the maturity and value of the cloud practices within the team.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- At least four years of experience as a DevOps/Cloud Engineer.
- Experience with AWS Cloud services such as compute, storage, databases, network, application integration, monitoring & alerting, and Identity & Access Management.
- Experience in an Infrastructure as Code environment, with proficiency in Cloud Formation/Terraform and Configuration Management using Chef/Ansible.
- Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of Network Security, Security Architecture, and Secured SDLC practices.
- Experience with NoSQL Databases like Cassandra, Aerospike, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Couchbase.
- Experience with Central Logging and monitoring using stacks like ELK (Elastic), Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
- Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines using one or more tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, or Circle CI).
- Experience with two or more scripting languages (Python/Shell/Ruby).
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Background or coursework in Computer Science.
- AWS certifications, Kubernetes certification, or similar.
- Relevant experience in a product organization.
- Experience with AWS security services like Guard Duty, Inspector, Cognito, WAF & Shield.
- Experience with one or more programming languages (preferably Java or C#).
- Experience with infrastructure design and implementation of serverless applications.
- Familiarity with Shell/PowerShell and Bash scripts for the default libraries of OS.