Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Mainframe MQ

JPMorgan Chase

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Work type
On-site
Location
Plano, TXColumbus, OHJersey City, NJ
Salary
$142,500–$185,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago

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This role $164k
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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $151,680–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $164k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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About JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the world, offering investment banking, commercial banking, asset management, and consumer financial services.

JPMorgan Chase currently has 368 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Mainframe MQ

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase in the Corporate Sector’s Enterprise Technology division involves leading a dynamic team to enhance and maintain IBM MQ on z/OS within the IBM Z ecosystem. This position requires designing, developing, and deploying changes while ensuring compliance with firm processes for change management and issue resolution through tools like JIRA. Key responsibilities include providing global on-call support, optimizing MQ operations, integrating telemetry data into observability workflows, and implementing AIOps solutions to improve system stability and resiliency. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in IBM zSeries and z/OS fundamentals, along with a strong understanding of MQ concepts and RACF security practices. Proficiency in automation tools such as REXX, CLIST, JCL, Ansible, and Python is essential, alongside familiarity with modern IBM Z capabilities like z/OSMF workflows and USS-based scripting.

What you'll do

  • Lead structured incident resolution and continuous improvements for global on-call support.
  • Design and deploy changes to IBM MQ on z/OS while adhering to firm processes.
  • Secure and optimize queue managers, channels, clusters, and logging in the IBM Z ecosystem.
  • Build telemetry from MQ and platform sources into enterprise observability workflows.
  • Deliver AIOps solutions including anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, and intelligent alerting.
  • Support cryptography inventory enhancements for MQ/z/OS flows and integrate coverage into reporting.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of applied experience in Infrastructure Engineering or equivalent formal training/certification.
  • Strong expertise in IBM zSeries and z/OS fundamentals including sysplex concepts, WLM, JES2/3, USS, SAF/RACF, SMF dataset management.
  • Deep understanding of MQ concepts such as queue managers, queues, channels, and object administration on z/OS.
  • Knowledge of RACF/ACF2 security practices and secure change methodologies.
  • Proven ability to automate tasks using languages like REXX, CLIST, JCL, Ansible, and z/OSMF/Zowe workflows.

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