Senior Platform Engineer - Networking & Cloud

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

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.