Software Engineer II - AWS Database Engineer

Overview

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Team, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job Responsibilities

• Administer, design, implement, and support highly available and scalable AWS database solutions
• Implement data models, database designs, data access, and table maintenance codes
• Maintain Distributed Databases with High Availability features using Data Partitioning and Database replications
• Resolve database performance, capacity, replication, and other data issues
• Collaborate with Information Architects and Database Designers to implement the physical data model
• Develop database performance monitoring processes and analyze data for optimization opportunities
• Provide up to Level 2 on-call support as needed
• Manage on-site backup and recovery processes
• Plan and execute necessary database upgrades or migrations
• Demonstrate technical problem-solving skills
• Gain experience with incident management and root cause analysis.
  
  

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB databases
• Experience in database design/development, modeling, integration, optimization, systems re-engineering, and operations support for both cloud and on-prem environments
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including MySQL and Cassandra
• Experience on-premises database systems such as Oracle, and DB2 is required
• Experience in migrating databases from on-prem to cloud environments
• Experience in implementing and managing database security, backup, and recovery strategies
• Experience with AWS management and monitoring tools like CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Performance Insights, DB Insights or Prometheus.
• Expereicne in creating roadmaps, processes, best practices, standards, and strategies for continuous improvement, resiliency, and scalability
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience with Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence.
  
  

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies