Senior Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Glasgow is seeking a Senior Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to enhance and deliver secure technology products. The role involves providing technical leadership, developing cloud infrastructure, and collaborating with agile teams. Candidates should have significant experience with cloud platforms and strong programming skills in languages like Python and Golang. A great opportunity to be part of a dynamic environment focused on innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud security best practices and DevSecOps processes.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support the business.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code.
• Lead the design of secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to engineering community practices.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver secure cloud applications.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts

Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP

Advanced knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes/ECS

Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, Cloud Formation

Proficiency in Golang, Python, Java, JS/TS

Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus

Knowledge of cloud security best practices

Problem-solving ability with minimal oversight

Experience in related technical fields

Education

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning Tools

Containerization platforms

CI/CD tools

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12.08.2025

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26.09.2025

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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 Senior Lead Cloud Platoform Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data and Analytics Office, you'll be a key player in our agile team. We work together to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products securely and efficiently. Your expertise and problem-solving skills will be crucial in promoting business impact and tackling a diverse array of technical challenges. This role offers the opportunity to apply and grow your skills in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

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
• Lead the design and development of the cloud infrastructure offerings and platform tools, ensuring that they are secure, scalable, and reliable, serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, and provide technical leadership and guidance to the cloud engineering team.
• 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, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Collaborate with development teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud
• Identify areas of improvement and prioritize initiatives that align with business goals and objectives
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies and bring in recommendations for adoption and implementation of new tools/technologies
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for the cloud

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud computing platform providers AWS/Azure/GCP
• Advanced knowledge of Containerization and Container Runtime/Orchestration platforms (Docker/Kubernetes/ECS )
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning Tools like Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane & Cloud Formation.
• Proficiency with programming languages like Golang, Python, Java, JS/TS .
• Hands-on experience with logging and monitoring tools Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, shift left methodologies and DevSecOps processes
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, )
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience implementing multi-cloud architectures
• Certifications in target areas (Cloud/Kubernetes/IaC )