Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Risk Lead

Job Description

Now is your opportunity to take charge as a leader of highly skilled infrastructure teams at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

If you are excited about shaping the future of technology and driving significant business impact in financial services, we are looking for people just like you. Join our team and help us develop game-changing, high-quality solutions.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platform - Network Services, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications and platform products. You drive significant business impact and help shape the target state architecture through your capabilities in multiple architecture domains.

 

Lead a team responsible for secure, resilient network infrastructure with strong ownership of risk remediation, audit readiness, and standardized engineering/change execution across on-prem and cloud environments. You will drive operational excellence, partner across functions, and ensure the adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to improve delivery speed and quality.

Job responsibilities

• Own network risk identification and remediation across firewalls, proxies, routers, switches, load balancers, and related platforms.
• Lead risk and audit-driven execution, assisting with Audit RFIs and ensuring timely, accurate responses to audit inquiries.
• Drive end-to-end execution by prioritizing work, ensuring timely follow-through, and managing stakeholders.
• Present status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership.
• Lead risk remediation initiatives, pinpointing root causes and executing effective solutions.
• Establish operational excellence through runbooks, standards, diagrams, and repeatable controls that are audit-ready.
• Build and maintain KRIs/KPIs and dashboards for leadership reporting (exposure, SLA adherence, control health).
• Partner across Cyber, Technology, and Operations to reduce operational, cyber, data, and resiliency risk.
• Lead team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to improve delivery speed and quality, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Provide immediate team with tasks, guidance, and expectations, overseeing work within the infrastructure engineering discipline.
• Identify and escalate issues to execute according to compliance standards, risk and security, and service-level agreements.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Risk/controls exposure and tooling familiarity (e.g., Archer or similar GRC platforms).
• Relevant certifications in network/security or risk fundamentals, and commitment to continuous learning in risk and resilience.
• Experience leading infrastructure engineering projects and team members.
• Experience leading teams in the safe use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment for infrastructure engineering workflows.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.
• Deep knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or system performance assessments.
• Proficiency in automation for infrastructure engineering tasks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to apply technical expertise, leadership, and business knowledge to projects of moderate scope.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid network environments.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with cloud and hybrid network environments.
• Advanced certifications in networking or security (e.g., CCNP, CISSP).
• Experience with regulatory compliance in financial services.
• Familiarity with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Experience with large-scale network transformation projects.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Experience promoting reuse-first practices for AI-assisted workflows across delivery routines.

About Us

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

About the Team

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.