Compute & Storage Engineering Lead

Mizuho Americas Services LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Competitive benefits package

In-office attendance program

Job summary

Mizuho is seeking a Director to lead Compute & Storage Engineering within Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture. You will own the team, delivery, and operating rhythm for compute, storage, and virtualization platforms as they modernize the hybrid estate.

This management-first role emphasizes building a high-performing team, accountability, and ensuring the right work is done well. Experience with VMware, storage platforms, and enterprise IT governance is valued.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in infrastructure engineering, incl. 5+ years leading teams.
• Delivery of complex infra programs (data centers, migrations, hardware refreshes).
• Hands-on compute & virtualization; VMware vSphere at enterprise scale.
• Enterprise storage platforms knowledge.
• Clear handovers to operations with docs and runbooks.
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining engineers; addressing underperformance.
• Budgeting, vendor and contract management; capacity planning.
• Regulated environments with change, risk and audit controls.
• Clear, concise communication with engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Nice to have: NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE; OpenShift/OpenShift Virtualization; Azure IaaS; IaC (Terraform/Ansible); large migrations; FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Compute & Storage Engineering team.
• Set clear expectations; conduct performance and career conversations.
• Own delivery across projects; plan capacity and priorities.
• Manage operating rhythm: planning, risk, budget, resourcing.
• Ensure production readiness with thorough risk assessments.
• Enforce change controls, audits, and resilience requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships, roadmaps and renewals.
• Present status, trade-offs, and decisions to senior leadership.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

VMware vSphere

Storage platforms

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

API provisioning

FinOps

Vendor management

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory controls

Budgeting

Tools

NetApp Storage

Pure Storage

HPE storage

OpenShift

Job description

Join Mizuho as a Compute & Storage Engineering Lead! Mizuho is hiring a Director to lead Compute & Storage Engineering within Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture. You will own the people, delivery and operating rhythm of the team that designs, builds and evolves the firm's compute, storage and virtualization platforms as they modernize across the hybrid estate. This is a management-first role: you are accountable for how the team operates and delivers, not for performing the engineering work directly. Your focus is building a high-performing team, running delivery with clear accountability, and making sure the right work gets done well.

What you'll do:

• Lead and grow the team. Hire, set clear expectations, run performance and career conversations, and develop engineers into senior and technical leadership roles.
• Build a culture of accountability and technical rigor.
• Own delivery. Run a single book of work across projects, lifecycle and demand. Plan capacity, sequence priorities, track commitments and elevate early.
• Run the operating rhythm. Own planning, status reporting, risks and issues, budget input and resourcing for the team.
• Own production readiness. Nothing moves into production until its risks are understood. Assess readiness across resiliency, capacity, failure modes and supportability, and hand platforms to operations with documentation, monitoring and a support model in place.
• Uphold controls. Keep the team aligned with change management, audit, regulatory and resilience requirements, and drive technology risk remediation to closure.
• Manage strategic vendors. Own OEM and platform vendor relationships, including roadmaps, escalations, lifecycle and renewals.
• Represent the team. Give senior technology leadership clear status, trade-offs and decisions.

What you'll bring:

• 12+ years in infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• A track record of delivering complex infrastructure programs, such as data center builds, platform migrations or large hardware refreshes, with clear accountability for outcomes.
• A hands-on background in compute and virtualization, including VMware vSphere at enterprise scale. You are technical enough to earn engineers' respect, challenge a plan and make sound trade-off calls, while leaving design authority with technical leads.
• Working knowledge of enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience delivering clean, well-documented handovers to operations teams.
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining strong engineers, and addressing underperformance directly.
• Program and financial discipline: capacity planning, budgets, vendor and contract management.
• Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services, with change, risk and audit controls.
• Clear, concise communication with engineers and senior stakeholders alike.
• Nice to have: Deeper enterprise storage engineering experience, such as NetApp, Pure Storage or HPE storage. Experience with Red Hat OpenShift (including OpenShift Virtualization), Microsoft Azure IaaS and bare metal provisioning or the ability to develop proficiency quickly. Infrastructure as code and automation, such as Terraform, Ansible and API-driven provisioning. Experience leading large-scale workload migrations between platforms. Experience with FinOps or cost transparency for infrastructure services.

The expected base salary ranges from $150k-$200k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered.

In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

In office attendance is an essential function of this role. There is currently a requirement to be in the office a minimum 50% of the time, or five out of every 10 business days. Specific information about the requirements for your role will be communicated during the recruitment process.

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia.

Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia.

Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research.

Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in all of the jurisdictions where we operate.

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Accommodations are available upon request for applicants with disabilities and other covered reasons in accordance with applicable law.

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We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing, as permitted by applicable law.

Why Mizuho

Mizuho is in growth mode as we are climbing the league tables, disrupting the status quo, and attracting top talent. Positions are available across our corporate functions, and on our corporate and investment banking, capital markets, advisory, research, sales & trading, derivatives, and financing teams. We are looking for candidates who want to contribute to our entrepreneurial culture where people at all levels are inspired to share ideas. Our creativity sets us apart, and our perseverance drives results in creating bespoke, client-focused solutions.

If you are interested in advancing your career working for a firm with a growth mindset and the resources of a global financial services team, we would like to hear from you.

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