JPMorgan SRE - Lead Software Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, London 

163422443

Job responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Support the engineering teams in building fault-tolerant, scalable applications by engaging in design discussions, RFCs and code reviews.
• Drive decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Implement and regularly testing DR strategies to ensure highest level of resilience and fault tolerance of the platform.
• Automate the installation, upgrade, scaling, and management of a large and rapidly growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Develop custom platform control plane webhooks, CRDs and operators and more that provide a secure opinionated platform.
• Maintain and promoting high-quality written documentation of assets, processes and runbooks that are used by the team in their day-to-day operations.
• Add to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Possess an up-to-date understanding of design patterns relevant to hosting and networking architectures.
• Proactively champion product development, driven by a desire to build truly exceptional products, not just solve immediate challenges.
• A strong background working in either Python, Golang or Java, having used one of these programming languages to execute a significantly sized project or initiative.
• Extensive experience of working with Kubernetes and Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: Database Administration, Networking, Observability Tools, or automation of infrastructure.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Excellent debugging and trouble shooting skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
• Certification in Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP preferred)
• Certification in Kubernetes