Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Observability

Client: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Location: Columbus, OH / Tampa, FL (Columbus, OH is highly preferred)

Pay Rate: $85-90/hr on W2Interview: Virtual

Position Overview: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and scale cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and enterprise observability solutions. This role will be instrumental in enhancing application visibility, improving system health monitoring, automating infrastructure deployments, and driving platform reliability across large-scale environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, cloud technologies, and observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and Splunk.

Key Responsibilities: Design, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes environments across multiple platforms. Build and enhance observability solutions to improve application performance monitoring, telemetry collection, and system health visibility. Develop dashboards, alerting frameworks, and predictive monitoring capabilities using modern observability tools. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and recovery processes using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to design integrations and support new platform initiatives. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, and Flux. Containerize applications using Docker and implement container security and operational best practices. Monitor platform availability, performance, capacity, and reliability while driving proactive improvements. Troubleshoot complex issues involving Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, application performance, and cloud infrastructure. Create automation solutions and operational tools using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages. Promote DevOps best practices, infrastructure automation, monitoring standards, and operational excellence across teams.

Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering. Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and container orchestration. Expertise with Docker and containerized application deployment. Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as: Terraform HelmKustomizeCloudFormationStrong experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using: Jenkins GitLabArgoCDFluxSimilar tools Deep understanding of observability and monitoring platforms, including: Prometheus GrafanaOpenTelemetryDynatraceSplunkGrafana Tempo Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Strong networking knowledge, including: DNSLoad balancing Ingress controllers Service mesh technologies Network policies Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages. Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).Experience with service mesh technologies such as:

• Istio
• LinkerdConsulKnowledge of SRE practices, including:
• SLIsSLOsError budgets
• Incident management
• Experience with logging and analytics platforms such as:
• ELKLokiSplunkExposure to container security and compliance tools.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise Kubernetes environments.
• Financial services or highly regulated industry experience is a plus.

Preferred Skills / Keywords: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana Tempo, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD, Flux, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Go, Bash, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, CI/CD, GitOps, Observability Target Profile The ideal candidate will be a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, or SRE professional with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes and enterprise observability platforms.