Lead DevOps Engineer - Cloud Native, Linux, Python

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is looking for a Senior Lead Software Engineer in London. The ideal candidate will drive significant business impact by enhancing and delivering top-notch technology products. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance, developing secure production code, and contributing to the engineering community. Must have advanced knowledge in Java, cloud computing, and CI/CD tools, along with a degree in a related field. Join us and work within a diverse and inclusive team.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Java with advanced experience.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application stability.
• Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support business and technical teams.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and debug others' code.
• Drive decisions affecting product design and application functionality.

Skills

Java

System design

Application development

Cloud computing

Automation

Linux

Python

CI/CD tools

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Jules

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software 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 Quant environments. The role will be based in London, and will entail both 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 firmwide 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
• Monitoring & Management of Plant Capacity & Reporting
• Management of Continuous Integration Environment
• Third Level Support Production Support

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced 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 leverages cloud computing, using technologies like microservices, containers, and dynamic orchestration
• CI/CD: Hands on experience of CI/CD technologies like Jules, Jenkins are highly desirable. Exposure to release management tools is needed.
• Automation/Tools Development: Design/Develop/maintain automated tools for toil reduction, reporting based on python and other scripting language

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• KDB+ knowledge

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. 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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.