Senior Lead Infra Engineer - Hyper-V & Global Platform

JPMorgan Chase; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate enterprise Hyper‑V infrastructure across global data centers. You will lead virtualization, automation, and performance initiatives to support thousands of workloads with a security‑driven, resiliency‑first mindset.

Role emphasizes WSFC, live migration, S2D, vSwitch/SET, and building scalable automation in C#/.NET while collaborating with security, capacity planning, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in infrastructure disciplines, plus 5+ years of relevant hands‑on experience.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Hyper‑V at scale, including WSFC, live migration, S2D, and virtual networking (vSwitch/SET).
• Strong PowerShell skills for automation, operational tooling, and configuration management.
• Demonstrated experience performing full‑stack performance auditing across compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers.
• Proven ability to analyze and optimize storage performance in virtualized environments.
• Experience with data‑center‑scale automation/configuration tooling (e.g., DSC, SCCM, Ansible).
• Ability to plan and deliver production changes with disciplined risk management, including zero‑downtime upgrade strategies.
• Working proficiency in C#/.NET (or equivalent) to maintain and extend automation/orchestration services.
• Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for infrastructure automation artifacts.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Architect Hyper‑V cluster designs across global pools, including WSFC, live migration, S2D, and vSwitch/SET topologies.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning using PowerShell, DSC, and platform APIs.
• Develop and enhance a custom C#/.NET 8 workload management platform to scale operational workflows and orchestration.
• Benchmark compute and storage performance using industry‑standard tooling to validate changes and guide capacity decisions.
• Diagnose full‑stack issues across compute, storage, networking, clustering, and hypervisor layers using structured troubleshooting methods.
• Evaluate proposed server BOMs for Hyper‑V suitability, providing performance‑focused feedback on CPU, memory, storage, and network characteristics.
• Harden environments by partnering with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and enforce platform baselines at scale.
• Document reference architectures, decision records, and operational runbooks to improve repeatability and auditability.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance that raises the bar for platform quality.
• Uses enterprise‑authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate analysis of complex infrastructure signals and documentation of mitigation options, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Leads reuse‑first adoption of AI‑assisted practices across delivery and automation routines to reduce recurring issues, ensuring changes are validated, traceable and auditable, and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Skills

Hyper-V at scale

PowerShell automation

C#/.NET

CI/CD pipelines

Storage performance

Automation tooling

Security posture

VLAN/SDN networking

WSFC live migration S2D

Tools

DSC

SCCM

Ansible

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate enterprise Hyper‑V infrastructure across global data centers. You will lead virtualization, automation, and performance initiatives to support thousands of workloads with a security‑driven, resiliency‑first mindset.

Role emphasizes WSFC, live migration, S2D, vSwitch/SET, and building scalable automation in C#/.NET while collaborating with security, capacity planning, and operations teams.