Senior Lead Software Engineer – On Prem OpenShift Platform

Socket.dev; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching and more

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and build the software layer for the OpenShift platform at enterprise scale. You will focus on private cloud solutions enabling Kubernetes-based platforms across on‑prem and public cloud environments, delivering a consistent end-user experience.

You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, controllers, and automation services, partnering with infrastructure engineering and platform stakeholders to accelerate delivery

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform services for workload onboarding and lifecycle management.
• 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, and configuration standardization.
• Implement CI/CD for platform software with testing, code review, and release strategies.
• Collaborate with infra engineers to define reliability and performance requirements.
• Deliver high-quality production code for private cloud infrastructure services.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex platform components.
• Document platform capabilities to drive adoption.
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities with proper validation and security controls.
• Promote reuse, ensure changes are validated, and align with resiliency and auditability.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AI-assisted workflows

Systems design

CI/CD

GitOps

Security practices

Distributed systems

Education

Formal infrastructure engineering training

5+ years production experience

Tools

Argo CD

Tekton/Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Helm/Kustomize

Git

CI/CD toolchains

Cloud platforms

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Enterprise Technology Compute Infrastructure Platforms team, you will design and build the software layer that makes our OpenShift platform usable at enterprise scale. You will focus on private cloud solutions that enable Kubernetes-based hypervisor and container platforms on OpenShift, with the goal of delivering a consistent end-user experience across on-premises and public cloud environments. You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, controllers/operators, integrations, automation services, and developer/platform tooling in partnership with infrastructure engineering and key platform stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Designandimplementplatform services that enable workload onboarding and lifecycle management (provisioning, policy/guardrails, quotas, templates, golden paths).
• BuildKubernetes-native automation, including custom controllers/operators where appropriate.
• Integrateplatform services with identity, secrets, policy, observability, and CMDB/service-catalog patterns as required.
• Developtools and services for multi-cluster operations, cluster onboarding, configuration standardization, and compliance reporting.
• ImplementCI/CD for platform software with engineering rigor, including testing, code review, static analysis, release versioning, and rollback strategies.
• Collaboratewith infrastructure engineers to define reliability and performance requirements and to reduce operational friction through automation and clear interfaces.
• Deliversecure, high-quality production code that supports scalable, reliable private cloud infrastructure services.
• Producearchitecture and design artifacts for complex platform components and ensure constraints are met throughout implementation.
• Documentplatform capabilities through high-quality documentation, examples, and reference implementations to drive adoption.
• Usesenterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate analysis of complex infrastructure signals and documentation of mitigation options, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Leadsreuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines to reduce recurring issues, ensuring changes are validated, traceable and auditable, and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Required qualifications, capabilities and Skills

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience delivering production services.
• Demonstrated proficiency building production systems inGo and/or Python(strong proficiency in at least one language).
• Demonstrated knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals (API design, concurrency, failure modes, idempotency, retries/timeouts, and observability).
• Hands-on experience withKubernetes and containersin production (Kubernetes primitives, client libraries, manifests, Helm/Kustomize concepts, and deployment patterns).
• Experience building platform software for OpenShift/Kubernetes environments (e.g., platform APIs, automation services, and developer/platform tooling).
• Experience implementing CI/CD practices and toolchains for platform software (testing strategies, release versioning, and rollback), including GitOps patterns.
• Experience with GitOps and pipeline tooling (e.g., Argo CD and Tekton/Jenkins/GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Experience applying secure engineering practices in platform services (e.g., authN/authZ, secrets handling, and vulnerability remediation workflows).
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support infrastructure engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation, escalating when uncertain and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and Skills

• OpenShift development and/or operations familiarity (Operators, RBAC/SCC nuances, routes/ingress patterns).
• Operator/Controller development experience, especially Go + controller-runtime patterns.
• Experience building internal developer platforms (portals, scaffolding, golden paths, policy-as-code, automation frameworks).
• Security-minded engineering experience (authN/authZ, secrets handling, SBOM/signing concepts, vulnerability remediation workflows).
• Experience with multi-cluster and multi-environment platform strategy, enabling consistent user experiences across on premise and public cloud.
• Passion for innovation, AI-assisted engineering, and continuous improvement practices that measurably improve quality and delivery speed.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.

• comprehensive health care coverage
• on-site health and wellness centers
• a retirement savings plan
• backup childcare
• tuition reimbursement
• mental health support
• financial coaching and more

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.