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

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 firm’s 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)