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Lead Software Engineer- AWS Terraform -Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
J.P. Morgan logo

at J.P. Morgan

Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

Posted 11 days ago

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**Lead Software Engineer - AWS Terraform - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** Lead and design cloud infrastructure for JPMorgan Chase, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability. Manage and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns using AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, etc.) and Terraform. Drive CI/CD and deployment automation, and strengthen engineering quality through pull request reviews and knowledge sharing. Collaborate with developers to enhance system design and operational maturity. Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and scripting (Python, Bash, Go). Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience and proficiency in Terraform.

Compensation
Not specified

Currency: Not specified

City
Plano
Country
United States

Full Job Description

Location: Plano, TX, United States

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase Commercial and Investment Banking, 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 firms business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operability
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns (reusable modules, consistent standards, safe deployments)
  • Improve CI/CD and deployment automation across services and environments
  • Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

  • Own and improve observability: monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and actionable runbooks
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; drive high-quality postmortems and follow-through
  • Partner closely with developers to improve system design, performance, and operational maturity
  • Strengthen engineering quality via PR reviews, shared standards, and knowledge sharing

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • A. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience 
  • Hands-on practical experience on AWS: ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, KMS
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

  • Proficient in Terraform (modules, state management, workspaces)
  • Advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code best practices (strong IaC and CI/CD patterns)
  • Good hands on Networking fundamentals: load balancers, DNS, firewalls, VPNs ,Jenkins (pipelines, Groovy, shared libraries), Spinnaker (pipelines, deployment strategies, canary/blue-green), GitOps workflows, Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS
  • Artifact management: Nexus, ECR, JFrog
  • Experience with Reliability, Observability, Security, Compliance, Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go , JSON and Restful API

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Good to have performance engineering basics
  • nice to have Cost optimization experience (FinOps mindset)

     

Excited to work in Commercial Banking, supporting our esteemed clients by enabling seamless money-related tasks through our self-service channels.

Lead Software Engineer- AWS Terraform -Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Compensation

Not specified

City: Plano

Country: United States

J.P. Morgan logo
Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

11 days ago

No clicks

at J.P. Morgan

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**Lead Software Engineer - AWS Terraform - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** Lead and design cloud infrastructure for JPMorgan Chase, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability. Manage and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns using AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, etc.) and Terraform. Drive CI/CD and deployment automation, and strengthen engineering quality through pull request reviews and knowledge sharing. Collaborate with developers to enhance system design and operational maturity. Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and scripting (Python, Bash, Go). Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience and proficiency in Terraform.

Full Job Description

Location: Plano, TX, United States

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase Commercial and Investment Banking, 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 firms business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operability
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns (reusable modules, consistent standards, safe deployments)
  • Improve CI/CD and deployment automation across services and environments
  • Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

  • Own and improve observability: monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and actionable runbooks
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; drive high-quality postmortems and follow-through
  • Partner closely with developers to improve system design, performance, and operational maturity
  • Strengthen engineering quality via PR reviews, shared standards, and knowledge sharing

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • A. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience 
  • Hands-on practical experience on AWS: ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, KMS
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

  • Proficient in Terraform (modules, state management, workspaces)
  • Advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code best practices (strong IaC and CI/CD patterns)
  • Good hands on Networking fundamentals: load balancers, DNS, firewalls, VPNs ,Jenkins (pipelines, Groovy, shared libraries), Spinnaker (pipelines, deployment strategies, canary/blue-green), GitOps workflows, Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS
  • Artifact management: Nexus, ECR, JFrog
  • Experience with Reliability, Observability, Security, Compliance, Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go , JSON and Restful API

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Good to have performance engineering basics
  • nice to have Cost optimization experience (FinOps mindset)

     

Excited to work in Commercial Banking, supporting our esteemed clients by enabling seamless money-related tasks through our self-service channels.