Senior SQL Infrastructure Engineer / DBA

Senior Infrastructure Engineer / DBA, GTI Employee Compute, JPMorgan Chase

About the Role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / DBA at JPMorgan Chase within the GTI Employee

Compute team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build,

and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and

scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for delivering critical

technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in

support of the firm's business objectives.

You will bring 10+ years of deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure,

including Availability Groups, performance, and resilience, while driving automation,

monitoring, and modern AI-assisted engineering practices. This role blends hands-on

operational ownership with architectural influence across the platform, working closely

with globally distributed and offshore teams to deliver around the clock.

Job Responsibilities

 Provide recommendations and insight on data management, governance

procedures, and the intricacies of acquiring, maintaining, validating, and using

data.

 Work with other team members, including offshore teams, to resolve high-priority

issues.

 Help manage GAIA application pools.

 Design and maintain robust software solutions for monitoring and alerting as

needed.

 Work with the team on database performance issues, including code and

infrastructure issues, sometimes using SQL Sentry.

 Help monitor and troubleshoot SQL Server Availability Groups, including but not

limited to replication issues, database failovers, and general troubleshooting.

 Work with the team on certificate tracking and renewals.

 Use AI tools and agents in day-to-day work to enhance productivity, automate

routine tasks, and accelerate issue diagnosis and resolution.

 Partner with offshore and globally distributed teams to ensure seamless

coverage, knowledge sharing, and consistent delivery across time zones.

 Support the team's on-call rotation.

 Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

 10+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise databases and

supporting infrastructure in large-scale, mission-critical environments.

 Extensive, deep hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly

Microsoft SQL Server.

 Extensive proficiency with Transact-SQL (T-SQL).

 Proven, in-depth experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting SQL

infrastructure, including Availability Groups (replication and failover).

 Substantial, in-depth experience with PowerShell scripting and ETL processes.

 Strong, demonstrated experience with database performance troubleshooting

and tuning, including tools such as SQL Sentry.

 Proven experience designing and maintaining monitoring and alerting solutions

at scale.

 Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including non-technical

business stakeholders and offshore teams.

 Experience with internal cloud applications.

 Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical

concepts to non-technical audiences.

 Experience with version control systems such as Git and Bitbucket for data.

 Demonstrated ability to apply AI tools in day-to-day work to enhance output,

automate repetitive tasks, and troubleshoot and resolve issues more efficiently.

 A forward-looking mindset toward AI-driven transformation, continuously seeking

opportunities to modernize workflows and improve reliability through emerging AI

capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

 Experience with SQL Server Availability Groups.

 Proficiency with PowerShell.

 Solid understanding of Transact-SQL.

 Experience with internal cloud application infrastructure.

 Experience with overall SQL troubleshooting.

 Experience working with offshore or globally distributed engineering teams.

 Experience with VS Copilot and Outlook Copilot AI agents, developing agent

MCPs, and building custom targeted agent profiles.

 Experience building agnostic agents.

 Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and agents to write, debug, and

optimize code and automation.

 Track record of driving AI-led transformation initiatives that measurably improve

efficiency, quality, or reliability.