Senior Lead Software Engineer - Platform / Network Engineer - Accelerator Team

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Networking Team within the Accelerator to turn innovative ideas into customer-ready solutions.

The role focuses on cloud native networking, scalable and secure infrastructure, and collaboration across squads to deliver value. You will participate in an on-call rotation and work from the office five days per week, contributing to reliability, security, and rapid incident response.

Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of public clouds and hands on knowledge on building cloud based environments.
• Experty knowledge of containerisation, Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Deep understanding of cloud‑native and traditional networking architectures.
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable, secure and resilient networks in GCP or AWS.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, routing, DNS, NAT, Firewalls, IPAM, Load Balancers, VPN).
• Extensive experience writing and maintaining custom Kubernetes Operators in Golang.
• Capable of writing code to deliver highly automated infrastructure environments that support the wider organisation.
• Being comfortable in fast moving, critical environments and working with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across the organisation to implement platform wide strategies in our networking stack.
• Optimise our infrastructure for failover and resiliency.
• Enhance our operator design and custom implementation: We are utilising a number of different cloud native operators. As our platform matures and scales, we need to ensure our custom operators remain fit for purpose.
• Improve observability of our networking components to meet SLOs.
• Lead troubleshooting of production workloads for customers and during incidents.
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies.
• Lead agile ceremonies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Public clouds

Kubernetes

Networking fundamentals

Cloud native architectures

GCP or AWS

Security and resilience

Programmable infrastructure

Ambiguity tolerance

On-call readiness

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

ArgoCD

Crossplane

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

Out of the successful launch of Chase in 2021, we're a new team, with a new mission. We're creating products that solve real world problems and put customers at the center - all in an environment that nurtures skills and helps you realize your potential. Our team is key to our success. We're people-first. We value collaboration, curiosity and commitment.

As a Platform Engineer in the Networking Team at JPMorgan Chase within the Accelerator, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

To support our mission‑critical systems and foster strong team collaboration, this position requires participation in our on‑call rotation and working from the office 5 days per week.

While we're looking for professional skills, culture is just as important to us. We understand that everyone's unique - and that diversity of thought, experience and background is what makes a good team, great. By bringing people with different points of view together, we can represent everyone and truly reflect the communities we serve. This way, there's scope for you to make a huge difference - on us as a company, and on our clients and business partners around the world.

Job responsibilities

• Collaborate across the organisation to implement platform wide strategies in our networking stack.
• Optimise our infrastructure for failover and resiliency.
• Enhance our operator design and custom implementation: We are utilising a number of different cloud native operators. As our platform matures and scales, we need to ensure our custom operators remain fit for purpose.
• Improve observability of our networking components to meet SLOs.
• Lead troubleshooting of production workloads for customers and during incidents.
• Develop secure high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies.
• Lead agile ceremonies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Detailed understanding of public clouds and hands on knowledge on building cloud based environments.
• Expert knowledge of containerisation, Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Deep understanding of cloud‑native and traditional networking architectures.
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable, secure and resilient networks in GCP or AWS.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, routing, DNS, NAT, Firewalls, IPAM, Load Balancers, VPN).
• Extensive experience writing and maintaining custom Kubernetes Operators in Golang.
• Capable of writing code to deliver highly automated infrastructure environments that support the wider organisation.
• Being comfortable in fast moving, critical environments and working with ambiguity.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• At least 8 years of experience in a similar role.
• Hands on experience with Reconciliation Loops, ArgoCD, IaC tooling (Crossplane/Terraform) and Service Mesh (Istio).
• Experience Debugging Networking and Kubernetes issues across a large scale cloud native stack.
• Direct connect, Cloud Interconnect, Partner Interconnect implementation.

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 our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.