Lead Software Engineer - Cloud DevOps - RDS

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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  

• 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.