Lead Infrastructure Engineer - VMware, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Terraform

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 Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Platform Migration Engineering and VSI 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:

• Design, implement, and operate resilient infrastructure platforms across virtualized and containerized environments.
• Build and maintain VMware-based virtualization solutions, including platform configuration, lifecycle management, and operational support.
• Engineer and support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments, including cluster operations, workload deployment, scaling, security, and troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and comparable tools.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and routine operational tasks.
• Apply practical AI capabilities to infrastructure engineering - for example, to assist with operational analysis, troubleshooting, automation, and knowledge retrieval - while following applicable security and data-handling requirements.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and operational practices.
• Diagnose complex infrastructure issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive sustainable remediation.
• Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and guidance to other engineers.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting VMware virtualization solutions.
• Practical experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production or similarly complex environments.
• Strong understanding of containerization concepts, including container images, registries, networking, storage, and orchestration.
• Experience developing and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform and/or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure and operational workflows using suitable scripting or automation tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, virtualization, containers, and platform services.
• Experience working with reliability, security, change management, and operational support practices.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical teams.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with CI/CD practices and integrating infrastructure changes into delivery pipelines.
• Familiarity with configuration management, observability, platform security, and secrets management.
• Experience operating infrastructure across hybrid or cloud environments.
• Practical experience using AI-enabled tools or techniques to support engineering workflows, with sound judgment about validation, security, and data privacy.
• Relevant certifications in VMware, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related technologies.

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans