Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — EKS/ECS, AI Enablement

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Software Engineer III to build, operate, and scale AWS-based production environments with a focus on EKS/ECS and Akamai edge delivery. You will enable deployment and operation of AI-enabled services, improve reliability, observability, and automation.

You will troubleshoot AWS infrastructure, manage container workloads, and contribute to secure coding standards while collaborating across engineering teams to implement health checks, scaling, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems.
• Manage, scale, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure, focusing on containerized workloads running on EKS and ECS. Provision and maintain infrastructure using Terraform to ensure repeatable, standards-based deployments across environments. Support and improve CI/CD pipelines for application and AI-enabled feature releases (deployment automation, rollback support, and environment promotion). Collaborate with engineering teams to implement operational best practices (health checks, readiness, scaling, and resiliency patterns).
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• 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.
• Administer and optimize Akamai CDN configurations for performance, caching, and edge troubleshooting. Implement and maintain Akamai Client Side Protection (CSP) configurations and support web security controls to reduce client-side threats (e.g., XSS/data exfiltration). Support certificate lifecycle activities (CSR generation, SAN/hostname validation, chain deployment, renewal coordination) and schedule changes to minimize downtime. Follow secure operational practices around secrets handling, access controls, and vulnerability remediation coordination
• Build and maintain dashboards and alerts using tools such as Splunk and metrics-based monitoring to improve early detection and reduce false positives. Participate in incident response: triage, escalation, mitigation, stakeholder updates, and post-incident follow-ups. Contribute to root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventative fixes to reduce recurrence. Create and maintain operational documentation (runbooks, SOPs, on-call playbooks).
• Support change management: peer reviews, risk awareness, pre/post checks, and safe execution during maintenance windows. Working knowledge of incident and change management practices (ITSM mindset, clear comms, disciplined execution).

Skills

AWS

EKS

ECS

Python

Bash

Linux

Networking

CI/CD

Agile

Security

Tools

Terraform

Splunk

Akamai

CI/CD tooling

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Software Engineer III to build, operate, and scale AWS-based production environments with a focus on EKS/ECS and Akamai edge delivery. You will enable deployment and operation of AI-enabled services, improve reliability, observability, and automation.

You will troubleshoot AWS infrastructure, manage container workloads, and contribute to secure coding standards while collaborating across engineering teams to implement health checks, scaling, and