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ExecutivePlacements.com · 4 hours ago

Lead Software Engineer- DevOps

Houston, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

ExecutivePlacements.com is seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join JPMorgan Chase's Engineering team, focusing on DevOps and automation. The role involves enhancing and delivering technology products while optimizing applications and infrastructure for robust risk and control management in trading activities.

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Responsibilities

Writes high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested software to develop reliable and repeatable solutions to complex problems

Collaborates with product development teams to design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, scalable, and efficient software delivery

Partners with product development teams to capture and define meaningful service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)

Develops and maintains monitoring, alerting, and tracing systems that provide comprehensive visibility into system health and performance

Participates in design reviews to evaluate and strengthen architectural resilience, fault tolerance, and scalability

Upholds incident response management best practices, champions blameless postmortems, and continuous improvements

Debugs, tracks, and resolves complex technical issues to maintain system integrity and performance

Champions and drives the adoption of reliability, resiliency and software engineering best practices, leading by example

Qualification

DevOps practicesCI/CD pipelinesJava programmingDistributed systemsPythonGoUnix/LinuxRelational databasesNoSQL databasesNetworking conceptsObservability toolsCloud technologiesFinancial/fintech experience

Required

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

Experience building production-grade software in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or Go

Experience in writing unit tests and integration tests using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, or PyTest

Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases

Proficient knowledge of distributed systems, and reliability patterns for achieving redundancy, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation

Proficient knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, and DNS

Proficient knowledge of Unix/Linux, including performance tuning, process and memory management, and filesystem operations

Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), such as Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, branching strategies and SemVer

Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and supporting large-scale systems

Preferred

Proficient knowledge of Java with a strong understanding of the Java programming language, including object-oriented programming concepts, and the JVM

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemtry

Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP, including deployment, management, and optimization of cloud-based applications

Experience working in the financial/fintech industry