Lead Infrastructure Engineer - MQ Series

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Plano, United States of America
31 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Plano, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
Unix
Cloud Computing
Databases
Disaster Recovery
File Systems
Middleware
IBM WebSphere MQ
Python
Reliability Engineering
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Information Technology
Virtual Private Clouds
Programming Languages

Job description

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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, filesystem, 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Working knowledge in one or more general purpose programming languages preferred Python and/or Java and/or automation scripting
  • Practical experience with public cloud

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

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.

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