Senior Infra Architect: Hyper-V & VMware Virtualization

JPMorganChase; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate enterprise-scale virtualization across global data centers. You will own Hyper-V and VMware VCF platforms, drive automation, and partner with security and capacity teams to enhance resiliency and performance.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to runbooks, and help implement AI-assisted workflows with strict validation and auditability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in infrastructure disciplines.
• Expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V and/or VMware VCF in large-scale production environments.
• Proficiency in automation, operational tooling, and configuration management using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, vRO, or equivalent.
• Experience performing full-stack performance assessment across compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers.

Responsibilities

• 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 bills of materials 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.
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate analysis of complex infrastructure signals and document mitigation options, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Lead reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines to reduce recurring issues, ensuring changes are validated, traceable, auditable, and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Skills

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware VCF

Python

PowerShell

Automation tooling

Education

Formal infrastructure certification

Tools

DSC

SCCM

Ansible

Salt

VMFleet

diskspd

fio

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate enterprise-scale virtualization across global data centers. You will own Hyper-V and VMware VCF platforms, drive automation, and partner with security and capacity teams to enhance resiliency and performance.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to runbooks, and help implement AI-assisted workflows with strict validation and auditability.