Compute & Storage Engineering Lead

mizuho; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mizuho is seeking 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 management-first role focuses on building a high-performing team, running delivery with accountability, and ensuring the right work is done well, including vendor relationships

Qualifications

• 12+ years in infrastructure engineering with leadership experience.
• Track record delivering complex infra programs with clear outcomes.
• Hands-on compute and virtualization background, VMware vSphere at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining engineers; address underperformance.
• Program and financial discipline: capacity planning, budgets, vendor management.
• Experience in regulated environments with change, risk and audit controls.
• Clear, concise communication with engineers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team; hire, set expectations, run performance and career conversations.
• Own delivery across projects; plan capacity, sequence priorities, track commitments.
• Run the operating rhythm; planning, status reporting, risks and issues, budget input.
• Own production readiness; assess resiliency, capacity, failure modes and handovers to ops.
• Uphold controls; align with change management, audit, resilience requirements and risk remediation.
• Manage strategic vendors; OEM and platform vendor relationships, roadmaps and renewals.
• Represent the team to senior technology leadership with clear status and decisions.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Strategic thinking

Communication

VMware vSphere

Infrastructure experience

Budgeting

Regulatory/compliance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Azure IaaS

NetApp

Pure Storage

HPE storage

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 and trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

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