Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer | Private Cloud Lead

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and build the platform layer for private cloud on OpenShift, enabling Kubernetes-based hypervisor and container platforms with a consistent end-user experience across on‑prem and public clouds.

You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, controllers/operators, and automation tooling in partnership with infrastructure engineering, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and auditable AI-assisted

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience delivering production services.
• Demonstrated proficiency building production systems in Go 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 with Kubernetes and containers in 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform services that enable workload onboarding and lifecycle management (provisioning, policy/guardrails, quotas, templates, golden paths).
• Build Kubernetes-native automation, including custom controllers/operators where appropriate.
• Integrate platform services with identity, secrets, policy, observability, and CMDB/service-catalog patterns as required.
• Develop tools and services for multi-cluster operations, cluster onboarding, configuration standardization, and compliance reporting.
• Implement CI/CD for platform software with engineering rigor, including testing, code review, static analysis, release versioning, and rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to define reliability and performance requirements and to reduce operational friction through automation and clear interfaces.
• Deliver secure, high-quality production code that supports scalable, reliable private cloud infrastructure services.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex platform components and ensure constraints are met throughout implementation.
• Document platform capabilities through high-quality documentation, examples, and reference implementations to drive adoption.
• Uses enterprise-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.
• Leads reuse-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.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

OpenShift

Tools

Argo CD

Tekton

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and build the platform layer for private cloud on OpenShift, enabling Kubernetes-based hypervisor and container platforms with a consistent end-user experience across on‑prem and public clouds.

You will develop self-service workflows, platform APIs, controllers/operators, and automation tooling in partnership with infrastructure engineering, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and auditable AI-assisted