Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS & Terraform Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Irvine seeks a Lead Software Engineer – AWS and Terraform to join the Healthcare Payments team. You will be a core technical contributor designing and delivering trusted, scalable tech products in a secure environment.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, drive architectural discussions, and promote enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring secure coding, testing, and operational stability across the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering end-to-end solutions across system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production systems.
• Proven Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, including authoring/maintaining reusable modules, managing remote state and locking, and applying workspace/environment best practices.
• Practical cloud-native engineering experience, including designing and operating workloads on AWS.
• Strong AWS compute expertise (EC2, EKS, Lambda) and event-driven architecture and integration (EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis Data Stream).
• Solid AWS networking knowledge (VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, Route 53).
• Experience with AWS storage and data platforms (S3, EBS; and databases such as RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB).
• Strong automation and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD pipeline design, integrating Terraform into workflows, automated validation/testing, and scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with validation standards.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations and secure handling of inputs/outputs.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive use of new technologies
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools, including AI-assisted development, to improve automation value
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Python

Shell scripting

Security & compliance

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

EC2

EKS

Kinesis

S3

EventBridge

DynamoDB

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Irvine seeks a Lead Software Engineer – AWS and Terraform to join the Healthcare Payments team. You will be a core technical contributor designing and delivering trusted, scalable tech products in a secure environment.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, drive architectural discussions, and promote enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring secure coding, testing, and operational stability across the software development lifecycle.