Lead Software Engineer, DevOps - Electronic Market Making

JPMorganChase; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a latency-sensitive trading platform within the Corporate and Investment Banking Electronic Market Making team. You will help maintain infrastructure, tooling, and deployment pipelines that enable teams across multiple global regions to build, test, and release with confidence.

Collaborating with senior engineers, you will drive CI/CD, automation, IaC, monitoring, and incident response, while promoting secure coding practices and AI-assisted

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering roles.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash in Linux environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration, performance diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
• Networking fundamentals and practical network troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and automated test integration.
• Familiarity with Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and IaC practices.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and multi-region production systems.
• Ability to support incident management and read/debug C++ codebases for operational support.
• Experience leading the use of AI-assisted software development tools with validation standards.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (build orchestration, automated testing, artifact management, and multi-region deployments).
• Implement automation using Python and Bash to streamline workflows, environment provisioning, and configuration management.
• Manage Linux-based production and development environments (RHEL/CentOS), including tuning, capacity planning, and resource monitoring.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code for consistent deployment topology across environments.
• Build and operate monitoring, alerting, and observability for latency-sensitive trading systems.
• Assist with network configuration and troubleshooting for market data distribution and exchange connectivity.
• Follow reliability practices including automated failover, disaster recovery, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop and maintain internal developer tooling and self-service platforms.
• Collaborate across teams to drive operational improvements and production readiness.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices with secure validation standards.

Skills

Python

Bash

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as code

Docker & Kubernetes

Incident management

AI-assisted development tools

Secure coding practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Ansible

Puppet

Salt

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

ELK

Kafka

Job description

Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking Electronic Market Making team, you will help support the reliability, automation, and operational efficiency of a high-performance, latency-sensitive trading platform. You will work with senior engineers to maintain infrastructure, tooling, and deployment pipelines that enable teams across multiple global regions to build, test, and release with confidence. Your work will contribute to the uptime, performance, and scalability of systems operating in live financial markets.

Job Responsibilities

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (build orchestration, automated testing, artifact management, and multi-region deployments).
• Implement automation using Python and Bash to streamline operational workflows, environment provisioning, and configuration management.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux-based (RHEL) production and development environments, including tuning, capacity planning, and resource monitoring.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code for consistent environment configuration and deployment topology across development, UAT, and production.
• Build and operate monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities to support SLA compliance for latency-sensitive trading systems.
• Assist with network configuration and troubleshooting for market data distribution and exchange connectivity in data center environments.
• Follow reliability practices including automated failover, disaster recovery procedures, and post-incident reviews/root-cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain internal developer tooling and self-service platforms to improve engineering productivity and reduce operational toil.
• Collaborate with application engineering, infrastructure, network, and platform teams to drive operational improvements and production readiness.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering roles
• Proficiency in Python (automation/scripting) and Bash/shell scripting in Linux environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience (RHEL/CentOS), including process management, performance diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing) and practical network troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and automated test integration.
• Familiarity with configuration management and infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Salt) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and supporting distributed, multi-region production systems.
• Ability to support incident management (triage, mitigation, root cause analysis, and remediation) and read/debug C++ codebases sufficiently for operational support.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience supporting trading systems or other low-latency environments
• Knowledge of electronic trading concepts: exchange connectivity, market data feeds, order routing
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK)
• Experience with message-oriented middleware or pub/sub systems (AMPS, Kafka)
• Understanding of Equities, Options, and Futures market structure
• Experience working in regulated financial environments

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.