Cloud/Kubernetes Platform Engineer, AWS Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment bank Equities group, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities


* Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems


* Cloud Platform & Infrastructure as Code Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and/or CloudFormation, with emphasis on reusable modules, environment promotion, and automation.

Build standardized platform components (networking, IAM patterns, EKS add-ons, observability integration) that teams can adopt consistently.

Drive platform improvements that reduce manual work and establish scalable operational patterns.


* Kubernetes EKS (Core Focus) Provision, upgrade, and operate EKS clusters end-to-end (cluster lifecycle, node groups, autoscaling, cluster add-ons).

Implement and support Kubernetes primitives: Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, namespaces, RBAC, requests/limits, PDBs, HPA, VPA, taints/tolerations, affinity, anti-affinity.

Troubleshoot cluster and workload issues and improve reliability through repeatable engineering patterns.


* Security, Identity, and Secrets Enforce least-privilege IAM and workload identity patterns (including IRSA for EKS).

Manage secrets using cloud-native services and Kubernetes patterns, including secure access and rotation practices.

Apply security best practices across cloud and Kubernetes (network segmentation, encryption, secure configuration).


* CI CD & Release Enablement Build and maintain CI CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins/Jules or similar) to support reliable application delivery.

Support release processes and collaborate with developers to improve build/deploy workflows.


* Observability & Incident Response Monitor infrastructure health using cloud-native monitoring and observability platforms (metrics, logs, alerting).

Participate in incident response, including log analysis, troubleshooting, and automation for faster containment remediation.

Produce and maintain runbooks and operational documentation.


* QA Performance Testing Partner with application teams to perform end-to-end testing aligned to business requirements.

Execute stress performance testing in lower environments and help establish capacity expectations and scaling approaches.


* Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted eng...