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JPMorgan Lead Platform Software Engineer 
United Kingdom, England, London 
209287811

21.09.2024

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase UK, tothe UK – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, channelling our start-up mentality every step of
the way – meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact.

As a platform engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be joining our Cloud Platform Engineering tribe, which is at
the heart of a cutting-edge cloud-native AWS infrastructure that powers the Chase UK bank that is trusted by over 2 million customers. You will be
exposed to a wide spectrum of technologies such as Kubernetes clusters, connectivity, databases, kafka clusters, as well as numerous opportunities to
create automations to eliminate toil and improve developer experience.

Job responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve our AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure the bank’s 24/7 operation with a focus on stability, performance, security and
    compliance
  • Maintain, design and create CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts and tooling using a variety of programming languages (Bash/Python/Go) as
    necessary
  • Maintain and build a cloud platform for application developers and provide support to improve their SDLC and developer experience
  • Manage and interact with vendors and other areas of the business to plan improvements and coordinate project efforts
  • Participate in on-call rota

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Formal training or certification on developing and maintaining applications in the public cloud concepts and proficient advanced experience
  • Experience developing and maintaining applications in the public cloud (we use AWS)
  • Experience managing public cloud infrastructure using infra-as-code technologies (we use Terraform)
  • Good knowledge of Kubernetes clusters' operations (we use EKS)
  • Good knowledge of programming using a modern language (Java/Python/Go)
  • Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that covers the full SDLC
  • Excellent understanding of DevOps principles and SDLC best practices
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Familiar with software engineering security best practices in a cloud environment
  • Knowledge of data streaming technologies such as Kafka
  • Knowledge of modern database technologies such as PostgreSQL and CockroachDB
  • Experience developing unit, integration and end-to-end software tests