Platform Engineer - Software Engineer III

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join their Agency Securities Finance Technology team in London. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience and strong skills in AWS and Python. Responsibilities include building and maintaining AWS environments, and collaborating with developers to design applications. This role offers a chance to work in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 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 corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintenance of AWS environment (EKS, ECS Fargate).
• Partner with developers to help design new applications.
• Help diagnose production infrastructure problems.

Skills

AWS (EKS, ECS Fargate)

Python

Shell scripting

Software Development Life Cycle

Terraform

Tools

Ansible

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

Messaging systems (JMS, 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)

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.