Senior Cloud and Security Software Engineer

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive secure, scalable technology in a Cybersecurity & Technology Controls context. You will be a core technical contributor delivering production-grade software across cloud-native environments, emphasizing automation, AI-assisted practices, and end-to-end testing.

The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, strong AWS and DevOps experience, and a track record of delivering complex cloud architectures and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s): Java, Python, or Go
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Practical cloud native experience
• Expertise with AWS infrastructure such as networking, EC2, Lambda, serverless solutions, VPC, Route 53, auto scaling, Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, storage services, and containers (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
• Proficient in core concepts for networking, public cloud architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with hands-on Terraform experience
• Expertise in designing and developing complex cloud architectures, deploying scalable solutions, and applying DevOps practices, including creating and managing CI/CD pipelines, application resiliency, and triaging issues
• Testing proficiency from unit to end-to-end, with tools such as Cucumber (functional testing), JUnit 5 or pytest (unit testing), JMeter (performance testing), and Gremlin (resiliency testing)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• 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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leverages DevOps tools to build, deploy, and operate a cloud-based orchestration platform, infrastructure as code, and automated compliance capabilities, keeping delivery automated and elastic
• Leads the design and development of new cloud implementations, with strategies for end-to-end automation, architecture design, performance and monitoring, proofs of concept, and transition to operations
• Creates automated functional, performance, resiliency, and end-to-end tests and makes them required quality gates in the pipeline
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to the business and its technical teams, mentors engineers, and leads communities of practice across Software Engineering
• Learns new technologies and services quickly as the platform evolves, and delivers production-ready work on them with minimal ramp-up
• Builds the tooling that lets an environment owner diagnose why their environment is unhealthy in production and fix it themselves

Skills

Java

Python

Go

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

DevOps

Cloud native

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Copilot

Splunk

Grafana

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive secure, scalable technology in a Cybersecurity & Technology Controls context. You will be a core technical contributor delivering production-grade software across cloud-native environments, emphasizing automation, AI-assisted practices, and end-to-end testing.

The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, strong AWS and DevOps experience, and a track record of delivering complex cloud architectures and CI/CD pipelines.