Sr Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lead to design and deliver scalable, secure infrastructure across compute, storage, network and virtualization. You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate with application teams and ensure compliance with enterprise standards and risk controls.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted analysis, automation, and drive for operational excellence, resiliency, and strong stakeholder communication in a complex corporate environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering, with proven ownership of solution design and delivery in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities with validation and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review AI-assisted recommendations before implementation, ensuring resiliency and security.
• Deep expertise in Windows/Linux, virtualization/containers (e.g., ESXi, VMware), networking, storage and backup/recovery concepts.
• Ability to lead technical design reviews, influence decisions and align stakeholders.
• Strong risk management, resiliency planning (HA/DR), and operational readiness.
• Proficiency with observability stacks, capacity forecasting, and performance engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Solution Design - Lead architecture of compute, storage, network and virtualization platforms.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate analysis and document mitigation options.
• Project Delivery - drive initiatives from concept to production, manage timelines and stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence - establish runbooks, monitoring, capacity planning and incident prevention.
• Risk - identify resiliency gaps, capacity constraints, and security exposures; develop mitigation roadmaps.
• Requirements Translation - turn business needs into engineering designs aligned to roadmaps and guardrails.
• Security & Compliance - apply security-by-design principles, IAM, encryption, patching, auditing.
• Automation & Modernization - promote IaC, automation, and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Collaboration & Communication - partner with teams and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation.

Skills

Windows/Linux

Virtualization

Containers

Networking

Storage

IaC

AI usage

Security & Compliance

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerCLI

Job description

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lead at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Structure - Infrastructure Platforms team, you will provide infrastructure solution design and delivery, ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant. As a lead within our Infrastructure Engineering team, you'll partner with application teams and technology partners to translate business and technology requirements into implementable infrastructure designs, proactively mitigate operational and delivery risk, and drive engineering standards across environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Solution Design - Lead the design and architecture of infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, network, and virtualization platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• 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.
• Project Delivery - Drive infrastructure initiatives from concept to production, including build, migration, upgrade, and decommission activities; and oversee project timelines, resource allocation, and stakeholder communication.
• Operational Excellence - Establish and enforce runbooks, monitoring and alerting standards, capacity planning, and operational readiness criteria while continuously improving incident prevention, detection, and response measures.
• Risk - Proactively identifying infrastructure risks such as resiliency gaps, single points of failure, capacity constraints, and security exposures, developing and executing risk mitigation plans, including architectural changes and remediation roadmaps.
• Requirements Translation - Translate business requirements into engineering requirements and technical designs, ensuring solutions align with technology strategy, roadmaps, and architectural guardrails and evaluate technology products and services, contribute to selection decisions, and guide implementation and integration to optimize platform capabilities.
• Security & Compliance - Ensure infrastructure designs incorporate security-by-design principles, including identity and access controls, encryption, segmentation, patching, vulnerability management, and auditability and support governance activities such as risk assessments, control reviews, technology lifecycle management, and change management.
• Automation & Modernization - Drive adoption of automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and repeatable deployment patterns and lead infrastructure modernization initiatives such as data center migration and platform standardization.
• Collaboration & Communication - Foster strong partnerships with application teams, technology partners, and stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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.

Required Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering, with proven ownership of solution design and delivery in large-scale enterprise environments.
• 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.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation, escalating when uncertain and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.
• Deep expertise in multiple domains, including Windows/Linux systems, virtualization and/or containers (e.g., ESXi, VMware), networking (DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls), storage, and backup/recovery concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design reviews, influence decision-making, and align diverse stakeholders.
• Strong experience in risk management, resiliency planning (HA/DR), and operational readiness.
• Proficiency with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces), capacity forecasting, and performance engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation and present to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI)
• Familiarity with security and regulatory controls, vulnerability remediation processes, and audit support.
• Experience leading infrastructure modernization (e.g., data center migration, platform standardization).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud integration.

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. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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

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. Drive significant business impact and tackle infrastructure engineering challenges that span multiple technology domains