Lead Infrastructure Engineer

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Jersey City, NJ. In this role, you will manage AWS capacity and optimize IT resources, ensuring efficiency in both on-premises and cloud environments. Qualifications include over 5 years of experience, proficiency in cloud tools, and strong analytical skills. The company offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and values diversity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience with CloudWatch
• Ability to analyze application and infrastructure KPIs
• Solid understanding of on-premises and cloud infrastructure
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent experience.
• Ability to assess capacity risk with business impact awareness.

Responsibilities

• Oversee IT resource utilization and conduct regular analyses.
• Provide expertise in optimizing best practices for cloud usage.
• Collaborate with application teams to ensure capacity management.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize resources effectively and ensuring that capacity management practices adhere to control procedures and standards.
• Continuously assess and enhance capacity management processes and tools, staying updated with the latest trends and best practices in the field.

Skills

CloudWatch concepts

AWS cost optimization strategies

Kubernetes

APM tools (Dynatrace, CloudWatch)

Capacity management

Understanding application and infrastructure KPIs

Compute/memory/storage concepts

Influencing across teams

Education

FinOps Certified Practitioner

Tools

Grafana

BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization

APPD

Grafana

BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization

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 the Corporate Technology (CT) division, you will leverage your extensive expertise in software, applications, and technical processes to contribute to the infrastructure engineering discipline. You will also have the opportunity to expand your technical and cross-functional knowledge beyond your primary area of expertise.

Job Responsibilities

• Experience with On-prem and AWS capacity management.
• Continuously oversee IT resource utilization, conducting regular analyses to identify and address any underutilization of resources, ensuring optimal efficiency.
• Become a trusted advisor for Corporate Technology (CT) by providing expertise in optimizing best practices for both on-premises and cloud usage.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize resources effectively and ensuring that capacity management practices adhere to control procedures and standards.
• Continuously assess and enhance capacity management processes and tools, staying updated with the latest trends and best practices in the field.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on CloudWatch concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience with CloudWatch, Dynatrace, APP D or similar APM tool along with experience in Grafana.
• Experience with Hypervisor, Kubernetes, Databases, and BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization, along with a solid grasp of compute, memory, and storage concepts.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent experience in FinOps principles, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Capability to assess and mitigate capacity-related risks with keen commercial and financial awareness, understanding the impact on business and internal stakeholders.
• Good understanding of application and infrastructure KPIs. Able to analyze and produce meaningful insights. Strong organizational skills, good judgment, fact-based and decision-making ability.
• Solid understanding of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, which is essential for managing and optimizing IT environments.
• Experience with various AWS cost optimization strategies, including budgets, savings plans, enterprise discounts, trusted advisor, reservations, spot
• Good understanding of Observability tools, like Dynatrace, CloudWatch etc.
• Ability to influence others across multiple functional areas to lead change. Able to review application and infrastructure KPIs and recommend optimization strategies to enhance infrastructure efficiency for the applications.

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.

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.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans