Lead Software Engineer: Hyper-V Cluster Automation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in New Jersey seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the On Premise and Next Generation Infrastructure team, guiding a small agile group across global locations. You will help deliver a private cloud offering spanning on-premise and public cloud environments.

You will drive AI-assisted development, embrace DevOps/SRE practices, and own production deployments, shaping secure, scalable infrastructure and tooling for resilient operations.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on experience in system design, application development, data modeling, and testing.
• Show proficiency in server-side programming (Go, Java, PowerShell or Python) and building scalable applications in virtualized Windows environments
• Possess advanced knowledge in at least one database technology.
• Practical cloud-native experience and familiarity with deploying production-ready software.
• Understand resource allocation (CPU, memory, networking) for VMs and clusters, with hands-on experience in Microsoft HyperV.
• Strong experience in developing and maintaining automated workflows, infrastructure troubleshooting, and maintaining security compliance, authentication, and data integrity.
• Experience with data-center-scale automation and orchestration Temporal and similar orchestration tools.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work and influence peers globally.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting for HyperV cluster lifecycle automation.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement , and decommissioning using PowerShell and Platform APIs.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards 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.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Lead production-grade deployments, own technical solutions, diagnose issues using structure troubleshooting methods.
• Work with large-scale infrastructure projects.

Skills

System design

Go

Java

Python

Cloud-native experience

AI-assisted development

DevOps / SRE

Education

Formal software engineering training/certification

Tools

PowerShell

Platform APIs

Hyper-V

Go

Java

Python

Job description

JPMorganChase in New Jersey seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the On Premise and Next Generation Infrastructure team, guiding a small agile group across global locations. You will help deliver a private cloud offering spanning on-premise and public cloud environments.

You will drive AI-assisted development, embrace DevOps/SRE practices, and own production deployments, shaping secure, scalable infrastructure and tooling for resilient operations.