Sr. Lead Software Engineer – On Prem OpenShift Platform

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

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.