Wholesale Credit Risk Technology DevOps Lead - Principal Software Engineer

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial organization as a Principal DevOps Engineer, where you'll enhance engineering excellence by driving best practices and improving developer experiences. This role involves implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation, and fostering collaboration across teams to optimize software delivery. Be part of a diverse team that values innovation and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of software applications and devops processes.
• Strong development skills with Java and/or Python, SQL.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Drive Engineering Excellence and core engineering best practices.
• Implement CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Collaborate across teams to streamline software delivery.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

Automation

Collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Job Description

Join a globally recognized financial organisation and advance your profession to new heights by contributing to revolutionary projects. You've discovered the perfect environment to have a major impact.

As a Principal DevOps Engineer at JP Morgan Chase within the Wholesale Credit Risk Technology organization, you draw upon your advanced knowledge to drive Engineering Excellence and improve the developer experience by driving adoption, removing toil and friction, and encouraging participation in initiatives across development practices. You will have the opportunity to drive adoption of tooling and standardization, and improve developer community engagement.

Job responsibilities

• Drive Engineering Excellence, by understanding and driving core engineering best practices within their organization
• Drive adoption of tooling and standardization
• Responsible for understanding friction points, and bringing them to the right intake process, and escalating in a timely manner to remove blockers
• Help implement and improve compliance, security and control requirements for applications
• Collaborate across development teams, SRE and central teams to influence positive change for our engineers and LOB and streamline the software delivery process
• Implement CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Enable faster, more reliable software delivery through automation and collaboration

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical devops processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines
• Ability to determine how each system relates to each other and use breadth of tools to build automation to improve reliability for the firm
• Strong development skills with Java and/or Python, SQL
• Experience with translating research, analysis, and tests into business recommendations
• Ability to balance and be accountable for the work of multiple architects and designers
• Understands and leads partnerships across job functions (e.g., Cybersecurity and Data) to develop efficient and developer-friendly systems
• Engages team members and expresses complex ideas with appropriate level of detail, while also providing constructive feedback
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef), containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), Monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

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 our 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.