Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase, in London, seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer within the Global Electronic Trading Group to drive secure, scalable technology delivery. You will collaborate with the London business and global partners to enhance, build, and deploy market-leading systems.

The role requires hands-on DevOps expertise, cloud-native design, and strong coding skills, with a focus on latency-sensitive trading environments and robust release management.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to the business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.

Skills

Linux

Python

Java

Unix scripting

Cloud computing

Automation

CI/CD

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Math or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jules

Job description

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that constantly pushes the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top‑notch technology products.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Electronic Trading Group, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

The Execution Services Technology department is looking for a DevOps team member who can support the latency, electronic trading, data analytics, and quantitative environments. The role will be based in London and will entail working closely with the London business and our global partners.

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.
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the software development life cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Coordinates DevOps / integration release management activities.
• Monitors and manages plant capacity and reports.
• Manages the continuous integration environment.
• Provides third‑level support for production.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming language(s).
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Experience in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Linux: understands the OS architecture, fluent user of the command line, can fluently speak either Perl or Python, UNIX scripting, Java.
• Cloud native: skilled in building and running applications that fully leverage cloud computing, using technologies like microservices, containers, and dynamic orchestration.
• CI/CD: hands‑on experience with CI/CD technologies like Jules, Jenkins, and exposure to release management tools.
• Automation/tools development: designs, develops, and maintains automated tools for toil reduction and reporting based on Python and other scripting languages.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• AWS experience.
• Kubernetes.
• Terraform.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.