JPMorgan DevOps Senior Lead Software Engineer 

United States, Texas, Houston 

827887346

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
• 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
• Proficient in design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight; Expertise in taking 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
• Experience with mentoring and guiding fellow team members effectively and constructively in a wide variety of disciplines, both technical and business-like in nature
• Demonstrated proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure and experience primarily Trading based application (Linux based)
• Expertise in designing, building, and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems

• Strong interest in Site Reliability Engineering topics like SLOs, resilience, scaling, performance, automation and more
• Knowledge of Electronic Trading and Equities, Futures, and Options Exchange Connectivity in global markets is desirable