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As a Senior Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Software Defined Networking team, you will lead architecture/design/development of our next generation SDN capabilities in partnership with other infrastructure teams.   The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise across multiple infrastructure domains with a focus on modern Software Defined Networking and Cloud concepts, a passion for problem-solving, a drive to innovate, and an interest in advancing modern engineering practices and communities. You will play a critical role in developing, innovating around, and exploring resilient, fault tolerant, scalable, secure, yet customer/ product team friendly software defined technology infrastructure oriented around the relevant principles of zero trust and segmentation across out multi-cloud environment .

Job Responsibilities:

Apply deep technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies to analyze complex data/systems, anticipate issues, and mitigate risks. Work with other Engineering and Platform teams to architect and rapidly iterate on designs, patterns, or changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes. Lead a team in developing secure, high-quality prototype and production code, and review and debug code written by others. Demonstrate the ability to solve problems, not deliver fixes.  Provide technical guidance and strategic direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors. Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Execute work according to compliance standards, risk and security, and business objectives. Advise and mentor engineers and technologists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. Develop and contribute to a great team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications:

Formal training or certification on coding practices, testing automation, one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc), Software Defined Networks & Network Security domain knowledge including VNFs, CNFs, CNIs (Cilium, OVH, Calico, etc), SASE, Micro and Macro Segmentation/Zero Trust; and other infrastructure technologies (e.g., hardware, databases, storage, identity, cloud infrastructure) and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization Practical experience with cloud-native technologies and virtualization and the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds. Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight. Experience with secure coding, AppSec, threat modeling, code testing, third party cyber security controls / testing, threat / risk assessment, vulnerabilities/weaknesses, and penetration testing (for Security Engineers). Strong communication skills to work effectively with technical stakeholders and senior technology leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

Network domain / engineering experience with underlay and overlay topologies at scale.  Experience with Policy as code frameworks / tooling (OPA, Kyverno, etc). Working knowledge of Reliability Engineering tenants, patterns and practices is a big plus and 10+ years applied experience Formal training or certification in software engineering or infrastructure engineering concepts is a plus.   Experience to rapidly evolving start up style organizations within a large regulated firm is a plus. Drive to continue developing technical and cross-functional knowledge outside of the product.