Lead DevOps Engineer - Cloud Native, Linux, Python, AWS

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in London seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to join the Execution Services Technology team. You will guide DevOps practices, build secure production code, and influence product design and technical operations.

The role emphasizes collaboration with London business units and global partners. The position requires hands-on experience in system design, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD tooling, with expertise in Linux, Python/Perl, and automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in Python/Perl and Unix scripting.
• Experience with cloud-native apps, containers, microservices, and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives decisions influencing product design, functionality, and technical operations.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in areas of focus.
• Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools, and practices.
• Influences peers to apply leading-edge technologies.
• Coordinates DevOps / Integration release management activities.
• Monitors capacity and reporting; manages CI environment.
• Provides third-level production support.

Skills

Linux/UNIX CLI

Python/Perl scripting

Cloud-native design

Automation/tools development

System design & ops

Agile practices

Education

Computer Science / Engineering degree

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tooling

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 Lead DevOps Engineer at JPMorganChase 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

• 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

• AWS experience
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. 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.

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. DevOps engineering / Equities Algo Stack / Data & Analytics and AWS Engineering