Senior Lead Software Engineer – Network Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector of the Infrastructure Platforms 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Plan, design, deploy, and configure network solutions/fabrics for the Wide Area Network environment consisting of Cisco routers, switches, and other network devices.
• Provide technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to the project to modernize the Enterprise WAN. Ensure network designs adhere to industry best practices and security standards.
• Manage lifecycle of network infrastructure, including deployment packages, as-built documentation, and performance optimization strategies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues, considering upstream/downstream dependencies and advising on mitigation actions.
• Ensure compliance with shared responsibility models, including physical infrastructure, connectivity, and facility-level standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• Support integration with compute, storage, and appliance services, including provisioning white space and configuring baseline device settings.
• Design and implement Transport (circuit) capacity upgrades and performance enhancements, involving hands-on configuration changes and testing

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training and certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise  
• Hands on experience in Network Engineering and formal training or certification on technical and network design concepts (CCIE,CCNP etc.)  
• Knowledge of one or more areas of SW Engineering/infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments
• Exceptional skills in Networking Technologies- Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, Multi-protocol BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, MPLS, RSVP-TE, IS-IS), working knowledge of network protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, LB, FWL, Proxy) and experience with IPv4 and IPv6
• Deep knowledge multiple infrastructure technologies and scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript,  yaml, Json, Bash,  etc.)
• Knowledge of on-premises and remote Data Center technologies and operations
• Strong experience in several OS and Hypervisor platforms (Hyper-V, ESXi, KVM, VMWARE, Open Shift)
• Deep technical knowledge of Hardware Platforms Cisco ASR Class Routers and Arista
• Experience in infrastructure engineering automation, optimization and observability
• Experience in deploying and using telemetry tools to improve visibility in service offerings
• Solid understanding of public cloud technologies,  for AWS / Azure on Kubernetes, Terraform
• Knowledge of network segmentation, firewall architectures, and compliance models

• Experience in CI/CD and tools like Ansible, Terraform, Puppet for automating configuration management and deployment processes
• Working knowledge of 40/100/400G Ethernet and CWDM, DWDM and optical transport network technologies
• Understanding of different Optics and internals of a switch ASIC
• Working knowledge of physical infrastructure design including structured cabling and fiber-optic cabling
• Understanding of network hardware platforms and their specifications in the datacenter space
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight