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# Lead Software Engineer - DevOps Specialist...

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Financial Information EXchange, Github, Python (Programming Language), OpenShift, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Datadog, Spring Cloud, System Availability, Grafana, Cloudformation, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Production Code, Enterprise Integration, Terraform, Splunk, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gbpadc

## About the Role

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

 + Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering experience

 + Advanced Python programming skills

 + Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting expertise. Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience

 + Hands-on CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo, etc.)

 + AWS cloud experience

 + Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, or similar container technologies. Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)

 + Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, and application resiliency

 + Experience supporting highly available production platforms

 + Electronic trading or front-office trading technology experience

 + Working knowledge of FIX Protocol, market connectivity, and order lifecycle workflows

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 + OMS / EMS platforms. Exchange connectivity

 + Capital Markets

 + QuickFIX / QuickFIX-J

 + Low-latency or algorithmic trading systems

 + Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Geneos

## Description

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

 + Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

 + Develop Python-based automation, tooling, and platform integrations

 + Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines

 + Deploy and support cloud-native applications on AWS and Kubernetes

 + Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools

 + Improve platform reliability, observability, scalability, and operational efficiency

 + Integrate trading applications, FIX platforms, and market-facing systems

 + Partner with engineering and trading technology teams to automate and modernize infrastructure

 + Drive DevOps best practices across development and operations teams

 + Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies


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