Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Mainframe, z/OS, DB2)

Join our Infrastructure team to help optimize and expand our mainframe environment as we continue updating our hardware at the firm.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms Mainframe Midrange Compute team, 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.

Job responsibilities


* Work in partnership with mainframe z/OS system programming teams to install and maintain a secure and healthy IBM Mainframe Db2 environment


* Install and configure IBM Db2 V12 & V13 subsystems, manage SMP/E (Software Management Program/Extended) target/distribution libraries, develop automated maintenance jobs and scripts accurately


* Work with Db2 database administrators to triage, mitigate and permanently resolve day-to-day production issues


* Manage IBM software maintenance by running SYSMOD reports, managing HIPER and system vulnerability fixes and responding to HOLDDATA actions required


* Perform on-call duties within on on-call shift rotation across a global and diverse team, providing daily turnover and management updates


* Collaborate with IBM and other infrastructure software vendors on high priority incidents, abnormal system behaviors and tuning opportunities


* Drive a workstream or project consisting of one or more infrastructure engineering technologies


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


* Execute creative solutions for the design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity


* Strongly consider upstream/downstream data and systems or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions


* Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* 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., Korn, Bash, Shell, 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


* 10+ years of IBM Db2 systems programming experience in a mainframe z/OS operating system


* Experience with supporting and upgrading IBM Db2 V12 & V13 subsystems, SMP/E (Software Manage...