Senior OpenShift Platform Lead - On-Prem Infra & VMs

Next Frontier Capital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate an on-premises OpenShift-based platform hosting containers and VMs. You will own cluster foundations, Linux, networking, storage, security, and reliability, partnering across hardware, security, and platform consumers.

You will lead lifecycle management, capacity planning, and AI-assisted practices to improve resiliency and efficiency while ensuring auditable changes and secure-by-default configurations.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on administration of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production environments (IPI/UPI, Operators, SCC/RBAC).
• Experience operating Kubernetes/container platforms through day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt or equivalent VM-on-Kubernetes.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience (kernel, certificates, OS config).
• Depth in networking, storage, or virtualization across multiple domains.
• Experience with security hardening, RBAC, secrets/certificates handling, vulnerability mgmt.
• Infrastructure automation/config-as-code (Ansible/Terraform/GitOps) with auditability.
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities with validation and data-sensitivity awareness.
• Ability to review/validate AI recommendations and ensure resiliency and security.

Responsibilities

• Design OpenShift cluster architectures (on-premises or hybrid) to meet availability and security needs.
• Build and operate OpenShift clusters end-to-end, incl. VM lifecycle and hardware acceleration concepts.
• Engineer the platform for Kubernetes and VM workloads with capacity planning and HA/DR.
• Own Linux platform fundamentals and cluster node operations.
• Implement and troubleshoot core networking (DNS, routing, load balancing, security).
• Integrate storage services for containers and VMs (CSI, performance, backup).
• Drive reliability with observability, incident response, root-cause analysis and improvements.
• Develop runbooks, standards, and reference architectures; lead readiness reviews.
• Leverage AI capabilities to accelerate analysis and document mitigation options with validation.
• Promote reuse-first AI adoption across delivery and automation with traceability.

Skills

OpenShift Administration

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

VM/Virtualization

IaC Automation

Security Fundamentals

AI-assisted Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

OpenShift Virtualization

KubeVirt

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate an on-premises OpenShift-based platform hosting containers and VMs. You will own cluster foundations, Linux, networking, storage, security, and reliability, partnering across hardware, security, and platform consumers.

You will lead lifecycle management, capacity planning, and AI-assisted practices to improve resiliency and efficiency while ensuring auditable changes and secure-by-default configurations.