OpenShift Platform Lead (On-Prem) - Infra & Automation

Next Frontier Capital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate an on-prem OpenShift-based platform that hosts containers and VM workloads. You will own the cluster foundations, compute, storage, networking, and security controls to enable product teams to deploy workloads safely and efficiently.

You will drive platform lifecycle, reliability, and runbooks, partnering with security, hardware, and platform consumers while embracing AI-assisted tooling with strong

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on administration of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production environments (e.g., install/upgrade patterns such as IPI/UPI, SCC/RBAC, cluster operators).
• Experience operating Kubernetes/container platforms through day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting, platform lifecycle).
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt (or equivalent VM-on-Kubernetes) and VM/container co-tenancy design considerations.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience (system performance, certificates, OS configuration, cluster node operations).
• Demonstrated troubleshooting depth in at least two domains: networking, storage, virtualization.
• Experience designing and operating highly available platforms, including capacity management, incident handling, root-cause analysis, remediation tracking.
• Experience partnering with security/compliance stakeholders on hardening, RBAC, secrets/certificates handling, vulnerability management.
• Experience implementing infrastructure automation and configuration-as-code practices (Ansible/Terraform/GitOps) with traceability and auditability.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support infrastructure engineering workflows with strong validation habits.

Responsibilities

• Design OpenShift cluster architectures (on-premises and/or hybrid) to meet availability, scalability, security, and operability requirements.
• Build and operate OpenShift clusters end-to-end, including install, upgrade, patching, scaling, resilience testing and VM lifecycle support.
• Engineer the platform to support Kubernetes workloads and VM workloads, including capacity planning and HA/DR considerations.
• Own Linux platform fundamentals (RHEL/CoreOS concepts, kernel/sysctl tuning, certificates, identity integration).
• Implement and troubleshoot core networking capabilities (routing, DNS, L4/L7, load balancing, firewalling, segmentation).
• Integrate storage services for container and VM workloads (CSI drivers, backup/restore approaches).
• Drive reliability practices including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventative improvements.
• Develop runbooks, standards, and reference architectures; lead operational readiness reviews and post-incident actions.
• Use enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate analysis of infrastructure signals and document mitigation options with proper validation and sensitivity handling.
• Lead reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines with traceability and auditability.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

Automation

IaC

Tools

OpenShift Virtualization

KubeVirt

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate an on-prem OpenShift-based platform that hosts containers and VM workloads. You will own the cluster foundations, compute, storage, networking, and security controls to enable product teams to deploy workloads safely and efficiently.

You will drive platform lifecycle, reliability, and runbooks, partnering with security, hardware, and platform consumers while embracing AI-assisted tooling with strong