Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the United States seeks a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate an on-prem OpenShift-based platform hosting containers and VM workloads. You will own cluster foundations, compute, hypervisor platforms, OS tuning, security controls, and reliability to enable safe, scalable workloads for product teams.

You will drive lifecycle management, incident response, and AI-assisted practices across the platform, partnering with hardware, networking, storage,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

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 both Kubernetes workloads and VM workloads, including capacity planning, performance management, and HA/DR considerations.
• Own Linux platform fundamentals (e.g., RHEL/CoreOS concepts, kernel tuning, certificates, identity integration) for reliable cluster operations.
• Implement and troubleshoot core networking capabilities (routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalling, segmentation).
• Integrate storage services for container and VM workloads (CSI drivers, performance, backup/restore).
• Drive reliability practices including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and improvements across lifecycle.
• Develop runbooks, standards, and reference architectures; lead operational readiness reviews and post-incident actions.
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate infrastructure analysis with strong validation and data-sensitivity awareness.
• Review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation to ensure resiliency and security.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes administration

Linux administration

Platform lifecycle management

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

AI-assisted workflows

Networking fundamentals

Security hardening

Education

Formal infra engineering training/certification

Tools

OpenShift

KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization

Prometheus

Grafana

Alertmanager

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in the United States seeks a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate an on-prem OpenShift-based platform hosting containers and VM workloads. You will own cluster foundations, compute, hypervisor platforms, OS tuning, security controls, and reliability to enable safe, scalable workloads for product teams.

You will drive lifecycle management, incident response, and AI-assisted practices across the platform, partnering with hardware, networking, storage,