Software Developer jobs in United Kingdom

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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 Platform 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:

• Provide technical guidance and direction to support business, technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Lead design and development of secure, scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure and platform tools; serve as a subject matter expert and provide technical leadership to the cloud engineering team.
• Advocate firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices within the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Collaborate with development teams to deliver high-quality, secure, scalable cloud applications.
• Identify improvement areas and prioritize initiatives aligning with business goals.
• Stay updated with cloud technology advancements; recommend adoption and implementation of new tools/technologies.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for the cloud.
• Manage Data Platforms Amazon EKS estate across multiple clusters and AWS accounts; contribute to Kubernetes software best practices, drive adoption, and coordinate annual upgrades/migrations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes as a Runtime Platform, including core concepts.
• Experience managing upgrades and migrations of Amazon EKS clusters.
• Development of Kubernetes operators to automate toil and improve developer experience.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud computing platform providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning Tools like Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, and Cloud Formation.
• Proficiency with programming languages like Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with CNCF and alternative tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, shift-left methodologies, and DevSecOps processes.
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight, with a background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience implementing multi-cloud architectures
• CKA and/or CKAD certifications.

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.