Software Engineer III - Terraform, AWS, Python

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Develops Python services, APIs, and tooling to improve CI/CD, deployment orchestration, and developer productivity on AWS
• Builds scalable, secure microservices and batch workflows using AWS services; ensure best practices for networking, identity, and security
• Owns infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state management, environments); establish standards, reviews, and automation for plans/apply
• Builds integrations with enterprise systems and AWS services in Python; create reusable SDKs, CLI tools, templates, and libraries
• Implements policy-as-code, audit logging, compliance controls; enforce RBAC and secure secrets handling across applications and infrastructure
• Optimizes deployment strategies (canary, blue/green), rollbacks, approvals, and gates within CI/CD pipelines
• Drives automated testing (unit, integration, contract) with Python frameworks; manage test data and continuous quality gates
• Ensures reliability and observability with logging, metrics, tracing, alerts; define SLOs and error budgets
• Implements performance tuning and cost optimization across compute, storage, and networking

• Collaborates with product, platform, security, and SRE teams. 

  
  

  Contributes to roadmap, estimation, and delivery plans; manage technical risk, debt, and cross-team dependencies

  
  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Proficiency in full stack development and strong experience with CI/CD platforms. 

  
  

  In-depth experience designing, deploying, and managing solutions on AWS, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, and networking/security best practices

  
  
• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud resources
• Proficient in containerization with Docker, including building, optimizing, and securing container images
• Strong background in orchestrating and scaling workloads using Kubernetes RBAC, and cluster management
• Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integrating cloud-native services into CI/CD pipelines

• Expertise in pipeline design, deployment strategies, and release governance in regulated environments. 

  
  

  Must have a security-first mindset, secrets management, RBAC, OIDC/SAML, compliance, audit, and policy-as-code (OPA)

  
  
• Proficiency on observability; logs, metrics, tracing (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Strong architectural design, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Agentic AI or integrating AI/ML models into CI/CD workflows

• Familiarity with AI-driven automation, intelligent agents, or LLM-based developer tools. 

  
  

  Experience with API Gateway, container orchestration, serverless architectures, and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise

  
  

• Knowledge of security best practices in AWS, especially as they relate to AI/ML workloads. 

  
  

  Exposure to prompt engineering, AI workflow orchestration, or embedding AI stages in the SDLC

  
  
• Interest in continuous learning and experimentation with emerging AI technologies in software engineering