Software Engineer II (AWS Infrastructure)

Overview

In this role, you build and operate scalable AWS infrastructure to support Portfolio Management services for Fixed Income. You’ll work with a cross-functional team to ensure reliability and production readiness at scale, primarily through a Terraform-driven AWS estate. You can grow into server-side development in Java or Kotlin (Spring Boot) while contributing to infrastructure and application layers. You will leverage observability and CI/CD practices to continuously improve system hygiene and resilience. This role offers a meaningful impact on financial technology and the opportunity to shape cloud infrastructure at JPMorganChase.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, resilient AWS infrastructure using Terraform in modular stacks (EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, MSK, KMS, Secrets Manager, EventBridge, SNS, CloudWatch, Lambda)
• Manage Amazon EKS lifecycle: upgrades, node groups, add-ons, remediation with minimal production disruption
• Monitor and support AWS estate health: triage, RCAs, remediation; participate in incident/problem management
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) for safe, reliable infrastructure changes
• Instrument the estate for observability with Datadog, CloudWatch, Dynatrace and use telemetry to improve hygiene
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities to assist design, testing, and documentation with strong validation and data handling
• Contribute to server-side development on Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income using Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot as skills grow
• Support a culture of diversity, inclusion, opportunity, and respect

Key requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
• Foundational experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Working knowledge of core AWS services (EC2/VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch)
• Foundational experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
• Practical experience with AWS in production or near-production environments
• Familiarity with observability, incident management in distributed systems
• Knowledge of AI-assisted code usage with validation and data security awareness
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code and recommendations

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• curiosity
• Terraform
• AWS core services (EC2/VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch)
• Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

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