Platform Engineer – Terraform & Developer Experience - Vice President
JPMorgan Chase18 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-grade Terraform modules for cloud database platforms.
- Define module interfaces, versioning approaches, and backward-compatible upgrade paths.
- Build infrastructure-as-code automation and tooling for scaffolding, validation, linting, configuration generation, and integration utilities.
- Develop clean, testable Python utilities to improve module correctness, developer workflows, and operational efficiency.
- Apply Git-based engineering practices, code reviews, release management, and continuous integration and delivery for Terraform.
- Integrate security, policy checks, and guardrails into module and pipeline workflows.
- Create module documentation, examples, and adoption guidance for internal customers.
- Partner with application, security, risk, and compliance teams to translate requirements into reusable patterns and exception workflows.
- Improve the reliability and operability of database platform modules through testing and operational practices.
- Contribute to roadmap planning and expand module coverage and patterns into GCP.
Requirements
- Advanced Terraform expertise building reusable, production-grade modules with clear inputs, outputs, documentation, and composability.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code engineering practices, Git workflows, code reviews, and automated validations.
- Proficiency writing clean, testable Python automation and tooling.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including modular design, debugging, unit and integration testing, and secure coding.
- Hands-on AWS platform experience focused on database services and patterns including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and graph databases.
- Knowledge of networking and security fundamentals including VPCs, subnets, security groups, routing, KMS encryption, identity and access management, and secrets handling.
- Exposure to GCP infrastructure-as-code patterns, Terraform provider usage, state, and core platform concepts.
- Ability to design paved-road developer experiences with guardrails, sensible defaults, and clear examples.
- Ability to collaborate with security, risk, compliance, and application teams.
- Preferred: experience with Terraform testing and quality tooling such as Terratest, linting, scanning, pre-commit, and policy-as-code.
- Preferred: familiarity with remote state, workspace or stack separation, drift detection, and migration strategies.
- Preferred: experience building golden module frameworks with tagging or labels, naming conventions, lifecycle controls, and upgrade guidance.
- Preferred: experience building CI/CD pipelines and publishing artifacts to internal registries.
- Preferred: familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: practical database operations knowledge including backup and restore, high availability and disaster recovery, performance tuning, patching, and maintenance windows.
- Preferred: experience with Go for platform tooling.
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About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.