JPMorgan Application Technology Support Lead 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

869323007

As an Application Technology Support Lead in Engineering Platforms & Experience team, you will play a leadership role in ensuring the operational stability, availability, and performance of our production services. Critical thinking while overseeing day-to-day maintenance of the firm’s systems will be key and set you up for success as you navigate tasks related to identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving issues to ensure a seamless user experience.

Job responsibilities

• Lead teams of technologists that provide end-to-end application or infrastructure service delivery for the successful business operations of the firm
• Execute policies and procedures that ensure operational stability and availability
• Monitor production environments for anomalies, address issues, and drive evolution of utilization of standard observability tools
• Escalate and communicate issues and solutions to the business and technology stakeholders, actively participating from incident resolution to service restoration
• Lead incident, problem, and change management in support of full stack technology systems, applications, or infrastructure.
• Monitor system performance and identify areas to improve in terms of efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution to ensure proper configuration management and version control practices.
• Participate in incident response and resolution, including root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services
• Experience managing applications or infrastructure in a large-scale technology environment both on premises and public cloud
• Proficient in observability and monitoring tools and techniques
• Experience executing on processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.
• Expertise in a development language such as Java or Python or scripting languages such as Java Script, Bash or PowerShell.
• Understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker registry, etc.
• Experience with micro-services, Unix, Linux
• Experience of Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Kanban, Test Driven Development etc)
• Experience in a DevOps or support role, working with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.
• Hands-On knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Participate in weekends on call support, as an escalation point of contact.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience in data mining and querying against databases