Software Engineer III

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer III to join the Corporate Technology, Employee Platforms team. You will design and deliver trusted, scalable technology products, supporting the firm’s objectives with secure, reliable platforms.

You will build container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure using Terraform, while maintaining MySQL and Kafka components in production and enhancing observability across systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps/Platform/SRE/Infrastructure role.
• Strong experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Artifactory and artifact promotion practices.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and scripting.
• Proven delivery of CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployments.
• Hands-on Terraform provisioning (modules, state, remote backends).
• Experience with MySQL operations and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Kafka (topics, partitions, monitoring).
• Experience with observability tools (logs/metrics/traces).
• Understanding of load balancing concepts and production support.
• Experience with DR/resiliency planning and testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain Linux-based CI/CD pipelines (build, test, package, deploy).
• Manage artifact lifecycle and dependencies using Artifactory.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Support MySQL and Kafka components in production environments, including monitoring.
• Implement and support infrastructure management activities (capacity, patching, configuration).
• Enhance observability and telemetry (logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts).
• Configure load balancers and traffic management patterns.
• Contribute to resiliency and disaster recovery readiness (RTO/RPO).
• Drive automation across operational workflows.
• Collaborate with application teams, security, and infra partners.

Skills

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Artifactory

Linux

CI/CD

Terraform

MySQL

Kafka

Observability

Load Balancing

DR/Resiliency

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Description

There's nothing more exciting than being at the center of a rapidly growing field in technology and applying your skillsets to drive innovation and modernize the world's most complex and mission-critical systems.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, Employee Platforms team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Build and operate container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain Linux-based CI/CD pipelines (build, test, package, deploy), improving reliability, security, and speed.
• Manage artifact lifecycle and dependency workflows using Artifactory (publishing, promotion, retention, access controls).
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices (versioning, reviews, drift detection).
• Support MySQL and Kafka components in production environments, including basic configuration, performance troubleshooting, and operational monitoring (as applicable to the role).
• Implement and support infrastructure management activities (capacity planning, patching strategy, configuration management, standardization).
• Enhance observability and telemetry: logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, and incident response using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana.
• Configure and support load balancers and traffic management patterns (routing, health checks, TLS termination, failover).
• Contribute to sustained resiliency and disaster recovery readiness (RTO/RPO understanding, runbooks, testing, failure exercises).
• Drive automation across operational workflows (environment provisioning, deployment, validation, remediation, reporting).
• Collaborate with application teams, security, and infrastructure partners to improve platform stability and delivery practices.

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities

• 5 years of experience in a DevOps / Platform / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Strong experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes (core concepts, workloads, configs/secrets, troubleshooting).
• Experience with Artifactory (repository management and artifact promotion practices).
• Solid Linux fundamentals (system troubleshooting, processes, networking basics, scripting).
• Proven delivery of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps or similar) with automated testing and deployment.
• Hands‑on infrastructure provisioning with Terraform (modules, state, remote backends, environments).
• Working experience with MySQL (operations, backup/restore concepts, troubleshooting, monitoring).
• Working experience with Kafka (topics/partitions, producers/consumers, operational monitoring/troubleshooting).
• Experience with observability/telemetry tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana (logs/metrics/traces; alert tuning).
• Understanding of load balancing concepts and operational support in production environments.
• Practical experience supporting high availability, sustained operations, and DR/resiliency planning and testing.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with service mesh, ingress controllers, or Kubernetes policy controls.
• Familiarity with secrets management and secure supply chain practices (SBOM, signing, scanning).
• Experience operating in regulated environments with change/release controls.
• Exposure to incident management, root cause analysis, and post‑incident improvements.
• Experience working with the SecuriThings device management platform.
• Relevant certifications in Kubernetes or Docker (e.g., CKA/CKAD/CKS or Docker certifications).