Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Devops

Lead Software Engineer

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Payments team, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Understands the firm's database infrastructure environment and technology modernization pathway.
• Works with application teams to help them migrate to the latest database products and versions on our private cloud or onto the public cloud.
• Designs and implements automated CI/CD pipelines for database provisioning and deployment using Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure changes.
• Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules for database resources, networking, and monitoring integrations.
• Uses expertise to help maximize the performance, resiliency of the application workloads and optimize database performance, capacity, and scalability.
• Implements network monitoring solutions to track database connectivity, latency, and throughput across hybrid cloud environments.
• Troubleshoots and resolves database issues, including query tuning, indexing, and deadlock resolution.
• Collaborates with developers to refine database schemas, optimize queries, and improve application performance.
• Ensures 24/7 availability and reliability for mission-critical systems through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
• Participates in cloud database administration on AWS (RDS, EC2) and Google SQL Database.
• Integrates cloud-native monitoring and alerting solutions for proactive issue detection and resolution.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proven experience in database administration, including migration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS and Google Database.
• Strong proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for database deployment using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.
• Experience with database networking, monitoring tools, and proactive alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Solid understanding of database performance optimization, capacity planning, and scalability strategies.
• Proficient in query tuning, indexing, deadlock resolution, and schema design.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery planning, backup/restore automation, and high-availability architectures.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application developers and cross-functional teams to optimize database and application performance.
• Strong documentation skills for maintaining database configurations, operational procedures, and deployment processes.
• Experience with security patching, compliance checks, and cloud governance best practices.