JPMorgan Chase
Lead Platform Engineer DevOps / AWS / Kubernetes
Columbus, OH · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads the design and operation of a scalable GraphQL platform, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling for engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve a reliable GraphQL platform; establish API standards and self-service developer experiences.
- Lead automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and platform operations.
- Promote responsible use of approved AI-assisted engineering tools, including validation practices.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Leadership in mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and driving cross-team architectural decisions.
- Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Python or similar scripting, Terraform, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, and version control and monitoring tools.
- Experience with AWS architecture, high availability and disaster recovery, OAuth 2.0, and secure authentication and authorization.
Nice to have
- Advanced knowledge of AWS services including EKS, ECS Fargate, IAM, VPC design, CloudWatch, and other listed services.
- Experience with observability and CI/CD platforms, open-source communities, or AIOps.
Tools
GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, AWS, Git/Bitbucket, Splunk
AI focus
Leads team adoption of approved AI-assisted development for coding, review, testing, and troubleshooting; establishes validation and safe-use practices. AIOps is preferred.
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