What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Infrastructure Engineer- Data Center Networking position at JPMorgan Chase?
Job Responsibilities
- Identifies and solves problems of high complexity associated with infrastructure engineering technology.
- Applies extensive in-depth expertise and problem-solving to accomplish, plan, and review tasks across multiple large scope projects and businesses/domains to influence, manage and implement functional technology platforms.
- Responsible for high impact projects requiring deep technical expertise and leadership.
- Partners across other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technological processes.
- Drives thought leadership within the product line and/or platform.
- Extensive consideration of upstream/downstream system or technical implications and advice on mitigation actions
- Consider financial implications of staffing, budget, and relevant profit and loss.
- Mentors and coach’s junior engineers and technologists
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Formal training or certification in infrastructure disciplines and 10 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in network architecture, design, and engineering within large enterprises.
- Deep technical expertise in data center networking technologies: Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Nexus, ACI, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, etc.
- Hands-on experience with routing technologies: BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS.
- Knowledge of switching concepts: VLANs, STP, VPC/MLAG, stacking.
- Practical experience with Cisco and Arista platforms (e.g., Nexus Series, Catalyst).
- Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, CI/CD pipelines) for network infrastructure.
- Experience with Arista CVP, AVD, Cisco NFM, Cisco Network as Code
- Demonstrated success in leading stability and resiliency programs including change management, incident response, and RCA.
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value on a scale.
- Experience leading complex projects supporting infrastructure engineering design, scaling, resilience, and system performance assessments.
- Strong documentation skills for technical projects and processes.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Deliver and maintain highly stable and resilient network environments supporting mission-critical financial applications.
- Partner with cybersecurity, application, and cloud teams to ensure robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure designs.
- Lead and mentor a global team of network engineers and technical leads; develop talent and build succession plans.