Platform Engineer - Software Engineer III

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join their Agency Securities Finance Technology team in London. The candidate will be involved in building and maintaining a cloud/on-prem hybrid infrastructure, with strong expertise in AWS and EKS required. Ideal applicants should possess a minimum of 3 years' experience in software engineering, coding skills in Python or similar, and hands-on experience with Terraform. The role promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on practical experience in AWS, EKS, and Terraform.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages, preferably Python.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining AWS environment (EKS, ECS Fargate).
• Partner with developers to help design new applications.
• Collaborate with Application Owner and SRE team.

Skills

AWS

EKS

Terraform

Python

Shell scripting

Tools

Ansible

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

Kafka

Job description

As an Associate Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Agency Securities Finance (ASF) Technology team, you will join a global team responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure / platform for approximately 300 applications. The applications run in a cloud / on-prem hybrid with a gradual move to cloud in the future. The ASF applications are predominantly Spring Boot applications using Oracle Databases with Kafka, MQ, QPid messaging.

Agency Securities Finance Technology

The ASF Technology team is a global team of around 100 engineers primarily focused in the Agency Lending business. The role will be based in London with the ASF trading and operations business spanning London, Bournemouth, New York, Dallas, India (Mumbai/Hyderabad), Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

ASF is part of a wider Securities Services group within the Corporate and Investment Banking division.

Job Responsibilities

• Building and maintenance of AWS environment (EKS, ECS Fargate)
• Partner with developers to help design new applications
• Building and maintenance of on‑prem infrastructure (VSI/GVP)
• Collaborate with Application Owner and SRE team to manage production platform updates (FARM / AOComms)
• Help diagnose production infrastructure problems
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Minimum of 3 years experience
• Hands‑on practical experience in AWS, EKS and Terraform
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages: preferably Python, but others considered.
• Some shell scripting experience
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with Ansible
• Java and Spring Boot application experience
• SQL
• Messaging systems (JMS, Kafka)

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 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.