Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Automation and Orchestration Platforms

JPMorganChase; Christchurch; In loco; GBP 110.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

JPMorgan Chase in Bournemouth, UK, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the enterprise automation and orchestration platform. You will own technical direction, shape architecture, and deliver secure, auditable changes across Windows and Linux environments.

You will build reusable automation capabilities (Ansible) and drive AI-enabled engineering practices with governance. The role demands hands-on engineering, collaboration with risk and operations, and a focus on reliability,

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering.
• Senior/Principal engineer with architectural influence.
• Experience with enterprise automation at scale.

Mansioni

• Own reliability of the enterprise automation platform.
• Define architecture standards and reusable patterns for automation.
• Develop automation modules and runbooks with Ansible.
• Integrate CI/CD with Jenkins and secure workflows.

Conoscenze

Ansible

Windows/Linux

Jenkins

Platform engineering

Security by design

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree

Strumenti

Ansible Tower

Jenkins

Monitoring tooling

Descrizione del lavoro

Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Automation and Orchestration Platforms

BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, United Kingdom

Job Information

• Job Identification 210805060
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Corporate Sector
• Posting Date 10/30/2026, 10:43 AM
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Make your mark by building the automation platform that keeps critical infrastructure running at enterprise scale. Join a team where your designs directly improve reliability, security, and delivery outcomes across a global technology estate. Grow your career through high-visibility, cross-organization impact and deep technical ownership in a regulated environment.

As aPrincipal Software EngineeratJPMorganChasewithinInfrastructure Platforms, you own the technical direction and delivery of an enterprise automation and orchestration platform. You design and build reusable automation capabilities that enable controlled configuration, orchestration, and run operations across large fleets of Windows, Linux, and network devices. You partner with engineering, operations, and risk stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, and auditable software changes. You drive measurable improvements in delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes through workflow automation and responsible use of enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence capabilities.

This role blends platform engineering and operational ownership for services that operate at significant scale and require strong control discipline. You will shape architecture standards, contribute hands‑on engineering, and improve release practices so changes are repeatable, observable, and recoverable. You will integrate authentication, access controls, and security‑by‑design patterns directly into automation workflows. You will also help teams adopt artificial intelligence‑enabled engineering automation in a way that is validated, traceyble, and safe for sensitive data.

Job Responsibilities

• Ownthe engineering and day-to-day reliability of an enterprise automation and orchestration platform supporting large-scale infrastructure automation across Windows, Linux, and network devices.
• Defineplatform architecture, technical standards, and reusable automation patterns to improve consistency, quality, and time to delivery.
• Buildanddeliverautomation capabilities using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, including well-documented modules, collections, and runbooks that enable safe reuse.
• Implementcontrolled release practices by integrating automated build, test, and deployment workflows using tooling such as Jenkins to support repeatable and auditable changes.
• Improveplatform observability by instrumenting monitoring, logging, alerting, and service health indicators that reduce time to detect and time to restore.
• Embedsecurity‑by‑design into automation workflows by integrating authentication and access mechanisms, privileged access considerations, and secure automation patterns.
• Driveoperational resilience by designing for failure, enabling safe rollback and recovery, and improving incident readiness through runbooks and automation-assisted triage.
• Leadadoption of artificial intelligence-enabled engineering automation within the software delivery lifecycle by defining use cases, workflow integrations, and measurable success criteria.
• Establishguardrails for artificial intelligence-enabled workflows, including human validation steps, quality gates, traceability, resiliency checks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated applied software engineering experience, supported by formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Strong experience in leading complex technical work through influence as a senior or principal engineer (architecture decisions, technical standards, delivery accountability).
• Hands‑on experience building and operating enterprise automation and orchestration solutions; Ansible experience required.
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (including Ansible Tower), or similar enterprise scale automation software in production environments.
• Experience designing and operating platforms with strong reliability requirements (monitoring, incident response readiness, and operational runbooks).
• Experience implementing automated build, test, and deployment workflows using tools such as Jenkins.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux administration concepts relevant to remote automation and configuration management.
• Working knowledge of enterprise authentication and access methods used for automation (for example, Secure Shell and Windows Remote Management).
• Experience applying secure engineering practices, including vulnerability remediation and patching processes, in regulated environments.
• Experience leading adoption of enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence-assisted engineering practices with human validation steps and measurable outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience automating network device configuration and operations at scale.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and cloud automation patterns.
• Experience designing multi-tenant platforms with policy-based controls and delegated administration.
• Experience modernizing automated testing approaches for infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Experience coaching engineers through design reviews and code reviews across geographically distributed teams.

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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.