Senior Lead OpenShift Platform Engineer: Private Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and build the OpenShift platform layer for enterprise-scale private cloud.

You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, and controllers/operators, enabling Kubernetes-based private cloud across on-prem and public environments. You will work with infrastructure engineering to implement automation, ensure security, and deliver high-quality production code that supports scalable, resilient services for workloads

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years experience.
• Experience delivering production services.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals (API design, concurrency, retries, observability).
• Hands-on Kubernetes and containers in production (Kubernetes primitives, Helm/Kustomize, deployment patterns).
• Experience building platform software for OpenShift/Kubernetes environments (APIs, automation, tooling).
• Experience implementing CI/CD practices and GitOps patterns for platform software.
• Experience with GitOps and pipeline tooling (Argo CD, Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience applying secure engineering practices (authN/authZ, secrets, vulnerability remediation).
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support engineering workflows.
• Ability to validate AI-assisted recommendations and ensure resiliency and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform services for workload onboarding and lifecycle management (provisioning, quotas, templates).
• Build Kubernetes-native automation, including custom controllers/operators.
• Integrate platform services with identity, secrets, policy, observability, and CMDB patterns.
• Develop tools for multi-cluster operations, cluster onboarding, configuration standardization, and compliance reporting.
• Implement CI/CD for platform software with testing, code review, and rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to define reliability and performance requirements via automation.
• Deliver secure, high-quality production code for private cloud infrastructure services.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex platform components and ensure constraints are met.
• Document platform capabilities through documentation, examples, and reference implementations.
• Lead AI-enabled practices to accelerate analysis and mitigate operational data risks.
• Lead reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

GitOps

Security

AI for infra

API design

Observability

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

controller-runtime

Argo CD

Tekton

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and build the OpenShift platform layer for enterprise-scale private cloud.

You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, and controllers/operators, enabling Kubernetes-based private cloud across on-prem and public environments. You will work with infrastructure engineering to implement automation, ensure security, and deliver high-quality production code that supports scalable, resilient services for workloads