Lead Infrastructure Engineer- VMware
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Nov 4
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
JPMorgan Chase's Enterprise Technology Compute Platform Engineering team engineers enterprise-scale Broadcom VMware VCF infrastructure across global data centers. The role focuses on virtualization, automation, performance benchmarking, and security hardening across compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers. This Lead Infrastructure Engineer will architect cluster designs, automate provisioning and compliance, and mentor engineers.
What you will do
- Architect virtualization cluster designs across global pools, including software defined compute and storage
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning using platform scripting languages and APIs.
- Benchmark compute and storage performance using industry-standard tooling to validate changes and guide capacity decisions.
- Diagnose full-stack issues across compute, storage, networking, clustering, and hypervisor layers using structured troubleshooting methods.
- Evaluate proposed server BOMs for suitability, providing performance-focused feedback on CPU, memory, storage, and network characteristics.
- Harden environments by partnering with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and enforce platform baselines at scale.
- Document reference architectures, decision records, and operational runbooks to improve repeatability and auditability.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance that raises the bar for platform quality.
- Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate analysis of complex infrastructure signals and documentation of mitigation options, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
- Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines to reduce recurring issues, ensuring changes are validated, traceable and auditable, and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Formal training or certification in infrastructure disciplines, plus 5+ years of relevant hands-on experience in enterprise or large-scale environments.
- Deep expertise in VMware VCF at scale
- Strong skills for automation, operational tooling, and configuration management, including scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, vRO, or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience performing full-stack performance auditing across compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers.
- Proven ability to analyze and optimize storage performance in virtualized environments (throughput, latency, IOPS, queueing).
- Experience with data-center-scale automation/configuration tooling (e.g., DSC, SCCM, Ansible, Salt, or equivalent).
- Ability to plan and deliver production changes with disciplined risk management, including zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
- Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for infrastructure automation artifacts.
- Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support infrastructure engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation, escalating when uncertain and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong server hardware fluency (Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, NVMe, GPU) and comfort translating workload needs into platform requirements.
- Hands-on experience with advanced virtual networking concepts (VLANs, SDN, teaming/SET, load balancing patterns).
- Experience with Broadcom management tooling in large environments
- Familiarity with vulnerability remediation workflows (e.g., Qualys) and baseline enforcement at scale.
- Practical performance tooling experience (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd, fio) for repeatable benchmarking.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest, and most diversified financial services institutions in the world. Operating globally through the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the firm provides a comprehensive range of financial solutions including investment banking, consumer and commercial banking, transaction processing, and asset management. Serving millions of consumers and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients, the company combines deep market expertise with extensive technological investments.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 320000+ employees
- Founded
- 1799
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Global Chief Information Officer
CEO, Asset & Wealth Management
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