Lead Infrastructure Engineer - VMware, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Terraform

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Platform Migration Engineering and VSI team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. Job responsibilities: Design, implement, and operate resilient infrastructure platforms across virtualized and containerized environments. Build and maintain VMware-based virtualization solutions, including platform configuration, lifecycle management, and operational support. Engineer and support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments, including cluster operations, workload deployment, scaling, security, and troubleshooting. Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and comparable tools. Automate platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and routine operational tasks. Apply practical AI capabilities to infrastructure engineering—for example, to assist with operational analysis, troubleshooting, automation, and knowledge retrieval—while following applicable security and data-handling requirements. Establish and promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and operational practices. Diagnose complex infrastructure issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive sustainable remediation. Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver platform solutions. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and guidance to other engineers. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting VMware virtualization solutions. Practical experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production or similarly complex environments. Strong understanding of containerization concepts, including container images, registries, networking, storage, and orchestration. Experience developing and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform and/or comparable tools. Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure and operational workflows using suitable scripting or automation tools. Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, virtualization, containers, and platform services. Experience working with reliability, security, change management, and operational support practices. Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical teams. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Experience with CI/CD practices and integrating infrastructure changes into delivery pipelines. Familiarity with configuration management, observability, platform security, and secrets management. Experience operating infrastructure across hybrid or cloud environments. Practical experience using AI-enabled tools or techniques to support engineering workflows, with sound judgment about validation, security, and data privacy. Relevant certifications in VMware, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related technologies.