What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - Cloud DevOps - RDS position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Payments team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Understands the firm’s database infrastructure environment and technology modernization pathway
- Works with application teams to help them migrate to the latest database products and versions on our private cloud or onto the public cloud.
- Designs and implements automated CI/CD pipelines for database provisioning and deployment using Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure changes.
- Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules for database resources, networking, and monitoring integrations.
- Uses expertise to help maximize the performance, resiliency of the application workloads and optimize database performance, capacity, and scalability.
- Implements network monitoring solutions to track database connectivity, latency, and throughput across hybrid cloud environments.
- Troubleshoots and resolves database issues, including query tuning, indexing, and deadlock resolution.
- Collaborates with developers to refine database schemas, optimize queries, and improve application performance
- Ensures 24/7 availability and reliability for mission-critical systems through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
- Participates in cloud database administration on AWS (RDS, EC2) and Google SQL Database
- Integrates cloud-native monitoring and alerting solutions for proactive issue detection and resolution
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Proven experience in database administration ( MySQL , PostgreSQL ), including migration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on expertise with cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS and Google Database .
- Strong proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for database deployment using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles
- Experience with database networking, monitoring tools, and proactive alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
- Solid understanding of database performance optimization, capacity planning, and scalability strategies
- Proficient in query tuning, indexing, deadlock resolution, and schema design
- Familiarity with disaster recovery planning, backup/restore automation, and high-availability architectures
- Ability to collaborate effectively with application developers and cross-functional teams to optimize database and application performance
- Strong documentation skills for maintaining database configurations, operational procedures, and deployment processes
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with security patching, compliance checks, and cloud governance best practices is a plus
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.