Senior Cloud Engineer: AWS & Terraform Lead

Aumni; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for AWS and Terraform to drive end-to-end cloud solutions within the Healthcare Payments team. You will design, build, and secure scalable applications, lead architectural discussions, and promote AI-assisted development practices across the engineering organization.

The role emphasizes secure coding, automated testing, and collaboration across teams to deliver trusted technology products for critical financial services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with end-to-end delivery
• Terraform IaC: authoring reusable modules, remote state, locking
• AWS design and operation of workloads (EC2, EKS, Lambda)
• Event-driven architecture and integration (EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis)
• CI/CD pipeline design and automation, including linting and plan approvals
• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools and safe adoption
• Strong security, resiliency, and cost-aware design principles
• Mentoring and leading engineering teams to adopt best practices

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and troubleshooting beyond routine approaches
• Develops secure production code; reviews and debugs others' code
• Automates remediation to improve operational stability
• Leads architectural design discussions and evaluation sessions
• Leads communities of practice for software engineering
• Drives enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices and validation standards
• Applies SDLC tools to improve automation and value delivery
• Fosters an inclusive team culture

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting

AI-assisted development tools

Security/compliance in cloud

Leadership/mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/SE

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for AWS and Terraform to drive end-to-end cloud solutions within the Healthcare Payments team. You will design, build, and secure scalable applications, lead architectural discussions, and promote AI-assisted development practices across the engineering organization.

The role emphasizes secure coding, automated testing, and collaboration across teams to deliver trusted technology products for critical financial services.