Sr Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering

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JOB DESCRIPTION

We're looking for a talented, senior engineering professional ready to take their career to new heights at one of the world's most influential companies.

As a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Enterprise Technology, Compute Platform Engineering team, you will engineer enterprise-scale Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure across global data centers, partnering inclusively across engineering, operations, security, and capacity teams to deliver resilient, performant virtualization services that support tens of thousands of workloads.

Job Responsibilities

• Architect Hyper-V cluster designs across global pools, including WSFC, live migration, S2D, and vSwitch/SET topologies.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning using PowerShell, DSC, and platform APIs.
• Develop and enhance a custom C#/.NET 8 workload management platform to scale operational workflows and orchestration.
• Benchmark compute and storage performance using industry-standard tooling to validate changes and guide capacity decisions.
• Diagnose full-stack issues across compute, storage, networking, clustering, and hypervisor layers using structured troubleshooting methods.
• Evaluate proposed server BOMs for Hyper-V suitability, providing performance-focused feedback on CPU, memory, storage, and network characteristics.
• Harden environments by partnering with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and enforce platform baselines at scale.
• Document reference architectures, decision records, and operational runbooks to improve repeatability and auditability.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance that raises the bar for platform quality.
• 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.
• 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 in infrastructure disciplines, plus 5+ years of relevant hands-on experience in enterprise or large-scale environments.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V at scale, including WSFC, live migration, S2D, and virtual networking (vSwitch/SET).
• Strong PowerShell skills for automation, operational tooling, and configuration management.
• Demonstrated experience performing full-stack performance auditing across compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers.
• Proven ability to analyze and optimize storage performance in virtualized environments (throughput, latency, IOPS, queueing).
• Experience with data-center-scale automation/configuration tooling (e.g., DSC, SCCM, Ansible, or equivalent).
• Ability to plan and deliver production changes with disciplined risk management, including zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
• Working proficiency in C#/.NET (or equivalent) to maintain and extend automation/orchestration services.
• Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for infrastructure automation artifacts.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience operating dual-hypervisor environments (e.g., VMware ESXi and/or KVM in addition to Hyper-V).
• Strong server hardware fluency (Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, NVMe, GPU) and comfort translating workload needs into platform requirements.
• Hands-on experience with advanced virtual networking concepts (VLANs, SDN, teaming/SET, load balancing patterns).
• Experience with Microsoft System Center tooling (e.g., VMM, SCOM, SCCM) in large environments.
• Familiarity with vulnerability remediation workflows (e.g., Qualys) and baseline enforcement at scale.
• Practical performance tooling experience (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd, fio) for repeatable benchmarking.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase's review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

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.