Infrastructure Monitoring Lead Platform Engineer

Fairygodboss; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join Enterprise Technology Infrastructure Platforms Monitoring.

You will build and operate a strategic monitoring platform, turning telemetry into actionable insights and modernizing workflows with automation and AI-assisted reliability improvements. You will lead engineering efforts across Linux, Windows, and network estates, implement OpenTelemetry patterns, and drive scalable onboarding, dashboards, and alerting while

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proficiency with Linux and/or Windows in regulated production environments.
• Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale Infrastructure Monitoring solutions.
• Solid understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, and events.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and operate Infrastructure Monitoring platforms for availability, performance, scalability and security.
• Build and run monitoring across Linux, Windows and network estates with onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Leverage AI capabilities to accelerate analysis and design documentation with proper data handling.
• Design platform services, telemetry collection and OpenTelemetry patterns.
• Develop onboarding patterns, dashboards, alert policies for scalable adoption.
• Improve signal quality via baselining, thresholds, noise reduction and topology alignment.
• Automate operations with code and CI/CD driven configuration management.
• Lead triage, RCAs, and resilience improvements for production health.
• Collaborate with SRE, applications, and infra teams to meet SLIs/SLOs.

Skills

Linux/Windows admin

Observability concepts

Automation/CI/CD

Python scripting

PowerShell / Bash

OpenTelemetry

AI-assisted tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Infrastructure engineering certification

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

PowerShell

Python

OpenTelemetry

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Assume a vital position as a key member of a high-performing team that delivers infrastructure and performance excellence. Your role will be instrumental in shaping the future at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Enterprise Technology Infrastructure Platforms Monitoring team, you will help build and operate a strategic, market-leading Infrastructure Monitoring platform that strengthens critical service resilience and delivers trusted operational insights. You will be a hands-on technical contributor on an high-performing agile team, building secure, stable, and scalable observability solutions-turning telemetry into actionable insights, modernizing event-to-incident workflows, enabling automation and AIOps-driven reliability improvements aligned to the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Engineer, operate, and continuously improve the firm’s Infrastructure Monitoring platforms, ensuring availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Build and run enterprise-grade Infrastructure Monitoring capabilities across Linux, Windows, and complex Network estates, including platform-level onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate infrastructure analysis and design documentation, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Design and implement platform services, integrations, and telemetry collection across metrics, logs, events, including OpenTelemetry collection patterns where applicable.
• Develop and maintain standardized onboarding patterns (agents/collectors, configurations, dashboards, alert policies) to accelerate safe adoption at scale.
• Improve monitoring signal quality and usability through baselining, threshold strategy, noise reduction, enrichment, and topology/context alignment.
• Develop secure, high-quality automation and production code; review, debug, and improve code/configuration written by others.
• Automate platform operations and reduce toil through scripting and CI/CD-driven configuration management; implement infrastructure-as-code deployment patterns
• Manage & maintain production health for the monitoring platform: lead triage, perform RCA, and deliver preventative engineering and resilience improvements.
• Partner with infrastructure, application, and SRE teams to align platform capabilities to SLIs/SLOs, operational readiness, and continuous improvement goals.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within delivery and automation routines to identify recurring issues and validate remediation options, ensuring changes are traceable/auditable and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency with enterprise operating systems (Linux and/or Windows), including administration, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and operational best practices within regulated production environments.
• Proven hands-on experience delivering and operating enterprise-scale Infrastructure Monitoring solutions across Linux, Windows, and/or Network estates
• Solid understanding and hands-on implementation of observability and telemetry concepts, including metrics, logs, and events, with experience using OpenTelemetry collection patterns and integrating telemetry into Downstream components
• Proficiency in automation and engineering practices, including scripting and development with Python, Ansible, PowerShell / Bash, and applying CI/CD-driven workflows for controlled, secure, and repeatable change management. Experience developing, reviewing, debugging, and maintaining secure, high-quality production code and platform configurations, including automation supporting monitoring platforms and platform operations.
• Well-rounded experience in infrastructure across hardware platforms, operating systems, networking, storage, and databases (MS SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra), including common deployment patterns, integration architectures, scaling and resiliency considerations, and performance assessment.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management practices using tools such as Terraform, enabling standardized provisioning and scalable, repeatable deployments.
• Hands-on experience operating in hybrid infrastructure environments, including enterprise on-prem platforms and public/private cloud, with familiarity supporting and migrating monitoring capabilities across cloud boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to improve monitoring signal quality through baselining, threshold strategy, noise reduction, enrichment, and topology/context alignment, supporting reliable event-to-incident workflows and operational insights.
• 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, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience operating one or more enterprise monitoring platforms such as SCOM, Tivoli, SMARTS, IBM Instana, DX NetOps, ITNM ,Netcool Suite
• Experience with modern observability ecosystems such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus and interoperability patterns for telemetry integration, routing and visualization.
• Experience with Kubernetes (e.g., EKS) for container orchestration and operations.
• Experience with topology-driven monitoring and correlation approaches for large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of Event Management & AIOps workflows (noise reduction, anomaly detection, probable cause analysis, guided remediation) with appropriate controls.

ABOUT US

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

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.