Java Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset Management Position/Accounting & Holding world, you play a crucial role in an agile Site Reliability Engineering team. Your focus is on applying software engineering principles to automate operations and ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of software systems. Key responsibilities include instrumenting applications to create telemetry data, enhancing observability and monitoring, automating manual operational tasks, troubleshooting incidents, managing infrastructure, performing capacity planning, and conducting blameless post-incident reviews to improve system design and reduce downtime. This role bridges the gap between development and operations, requiring both strong software coding skills and operational expertise.

Job responsibilities

• Seek continuous improvement of reliability, monitoring, and alerting for our mission-critical microservices.
• Instrument Spring boot Moneta apps for telemetric data.
• Apply technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to provide support for multiple Cloud products and services.
• Implement & maintain scalable, secure, and efficient cloud environments for AWS platform automating infrastructure deployment, monitoring performance, optimizing costs, ensuring security and compliance, and troubleshooting issues. 
• Design monitoring and alerting that is customer journey-based and directly proportionate to customer experience, supporting our ‘you build it, you own it’ model. Our alerts must be highly precise, as developer teams are engaged immediately with no triage.
• Think outside of the box to eliminate toil and enable controls excellence, automating as much as possible.
• Hands on with cutting egde AI/ML tools (copilot/GPT cline) to solve day to day issues.
• Contribute to internal tools, including our state-of-the-art framework for SLI and error budget aggregation.
• Enhance performance testing, forecasting, and capacity planning framework.
• Contribute to chaos engineering framework.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience. 
• Fluency and Proficiency in Java Spring Boot/Python.
• Proven experience in infrastructure engineering for AWS platform/SRE/DevOps or similar.
• Knowledge of networking terminology, databases, compute, storage, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.), container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Experienced in SRE/DevOps practices (SLA/SLOs, error budgets, MTTR, MTTD).
• Practical cloud native experience.

• AWS Certifications (e.g.  Solutions Architect Associate).
• AL/ML knowledge.

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.​