Senior Lead Cloud Platform Engineer Kubernetes & AI

JP Morgan Chase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Platform) to set the technical direction for its Accelerator Business Platform Team. You will lead platform services, champion secure, scalable Kubernetes deployments and drive engineering excellence across squads.

Responsibilities include designing composable infrastructure, automating CI/CD, and guiding teams on AI-assisted development practices for reliable, secure systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform engineering across squads, aligning architecture, delivery, and operational excellence to business outcomes and risk controls.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review code to establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Design and operate Kubernetes-based platform services; automate self-service and CI/CD; strengthen platform security and controls via IaC and policy-as-code.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Java

Kotlin

CI/CD

Cloud

AWS

Security

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

GitOps

Kubernetes Operator Pattern

Job description

JP Morgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer (Platform) to set the technical direction for its Accelerator Business Platform Team. You will lead platform services, champion secure, scalable Kubernetes deployments and drive engineering excellence across squads.

Responsibilities include designing composable infrastructure, automating CI/CD, and guiding teams on AI-assisted development practices for reliable, secure systems.