Lead Infrastructure Engineer - MQ Series

Assume a vital position as a key member of a high-performing team that delivers infrastructure and performance excellence. Your role will be instrumental in shaping the future at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Corporate Sector - Enterprise Technology, you apply deep knowledge of software, applications, and technical processes within the infrastructure engineering discipline. Continue to evolve your technical and cross-functional knowledge outside of your aligned domain of expertise.

• Applies technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope

• Drives a workstream or project consisting of one or more infrastructure engineering technologies

• Works with other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes

• Executes creative solutions for the design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity

• Strongly considers upstream/downstream data and systems or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions

• Operate and support IBM MQ environments across development, testing, and production, ensuring service availability, stability, and compliance with internal standards.

• Support resilience objectives via disaster recovery planning, sustained resilience coordination, and testing/validation activities. Apply reliability engineering practices: define and improve service health indicators, operational thresholds, and actionable alerting to reduce noise and improve time-to-detect/time-to-recover.

• Maintain clear operational runbooks, standards, and controls that enable consistent execution across a geographically distributed operations model.

• Reduce toil through automation, including scripted remediation, self-service operational workflows, and repeatable change execution (e.g., certificate lifecycle, configuration validation, routine health checks).

• Institutionalize post-incident learning: contribute to blameless reviews, ensure corrective actions are tracked to closure, and verify effectiveness through measurable outcome improvements.

• Provide technical guidance and responsive support to application teams integrating with MQ, including connection patterns, security constraints, and operational best practices.

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services

• Deep knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments

• Deep knowledge of one specific infrastructure technology and scripting languages (e.g., Scripting, Python, etc.)

• Drives to continue to develop technical and cross-functional knowledge outside of the product

• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds

• Experience executing on processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework

• Demonstrated, hands‑on experience operating middleware in enterprise production environments, including IBM MQ administration and incident response in secure environments.

• Strong problem determination skills, structured troubleshooting approach, and ability to perform under time pressure while maintaining operational discipline.

• Working knowledge of Unix and/or Windows system administration, including process, file system, certificate stores, and basic networking fundamentals relevant to MQ connectivity.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across distributed teams and manage customer expectations.

• Working knowledge in one or more general purpose programming languages preferred Python and/or Java and/or automation scripting

• Practical experience with public cloud

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