What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Database position at JPMorgan Chase?
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's Infrastructure Platform team, you will leverage your extensive expertise in software, applications, and technical processes to contribute to the infrastructure engineering discipline. You will also have the opportunity to expand your technical and cross-functional skills beyond your primary area of specialization.
Job responsibilities
- Understand the firm’s database infrastructure environment and technology modernization pathway
- Work with application teams to help them migrate to the latest database products and versions on our private cloud or onto the public cloud
- Use your expertise to help maximize the performance and resiliency of the application workloads
- Monitor and optimize database performance, capacity, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database issues, including query tuning, indexing, and deadlock resolution.
- Collaborate with developers to refine database schemas, optimize queries, and improve application performance.
- Ensure 24/7 availability and reliability for mission-critical systems through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
- Participate in cloud database administration on AWS (RDS, EC2) and Azure SQL Database.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of database configurations, processes, and operational procedures.
- Support release deployments, maintenance windows, and database upgrades after hours and weekends as needed.
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Infrastructure concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Must be a US Citizen and have lived in the US the past 7 years consecutively, which the government requires as you will interact with government databases
- Deep knowledge of managing and optimizing large-scale database environments
- Expert technical expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, AWS and Azure database services
- 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
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Financial or banking domain experience is a bonus