Compute & Storage Engineering Lead

Mizuho•New York City, NY

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Mizuho is hiring a Director to lead Compute & Storage Engineering within Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture. The role owns the people, delivery, and operating rhythm of the team responsible for designing, building, and evolving the firm’s compute, storage, and virtualization platforms as they modernize across a hybrid estate. This is a management-first position: the lead is accountable for team operations and delivery rather than performing engineering work directly. The focus is on building a high-performing team, maintaining clear delivery accountability, and ensuring the right work is completed effectively. The lead manages the team’s work across projects, lifecycle, and demand; oversees planning, capacity, priorities, commitments, reporting, risks, budget input, and resourcing; and ensures platforms are production-ready before release. Production readiness includes assessing resiliency, capacity, failure modes, and supportability, and providing operations teams with documentation, monitoring, and a support model. The role also upholds change-management, audit, regulatory, and resilience controls; drives technology-risk remediation; manages strategic OEM and platform vendors; and communicates status, trade-offs, and decisions to senior technology leaders. The position requires extensive infrastructure engineering experience, including enterprise-scale compute and virtualization expertise, particularly VMware vSphere, alongside working knowledge of enterprise storage. The successful candidate will have led engineering teams and complex infrastructure programs, built and developed strong teams, delivered operational handovers, and applied program, financial, vendor, and contract management discipline. Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services, is sought. The expected base salary is $150,000–$200,000. Salary offers consider relevant skills, training, experience, education, certifications and licenses, as applicable, as well as market and organizational factors. Successful candidates are eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to salary and an employee benefits package. In-office attendance is an essential function; the current requirement is at least 50% of the time, or five out of every 10 business days. Role-specific attendance information will be provided during recruitment.

Requirements

12 or more years of infrastructure engineering experience, including 5 or more years leading engineering teams.
Track record delivering complex infrastructure programs, such as data center builds, platform migrations, or large hardware refreshes, with clear accountability for outcomes.
Hands-on background in compute and virtualization, including VMware vSphere at enterprise scale.
Technical ability to earn engineers’ respect, challenge plans, and make sound trade-off decisions while leaving design authority with technical leads.
Working knowledge of enterprise storage platforms.
Experience delivering clean, well-documented handovers to operations teams.
Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, and addressing underperformance directly.
Program and financial discipline, including capacity planning, budgets, and vendor and contract management.
Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services, with change, risk, and audit controls.
Clear, concise communication with engineers and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Deeper enterprise storage engineering experience, such as NetApp, Pure Storage, or HPE storage.
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, including OpenShift Virtualization; Microsoft Azure IaaS; and bare metal provisioning, or ability to develop proficiency quickly.
Infrastructure as code and automation experience, such as Terraform, Ansible, and API-driven provisioning.
Experience leading large-scale workload migrations between platforms.
Experience with FinOps or cost transparency for infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

Hire, set expectations for, manage performance and career conversations with, and develop engineers into senior and technical leadership roles.
Build a culture of accountability and technical rigor.
Own delivery across a single book of work covering projects, lifecycle, and demand; plan capacity, sequence priorities, track commitments, and escalate early.
Own the team’s operating rhythm, including planning, status reporting, risks and issues, budget input, and resourcing.
Assess production readiness, including resiliency, capacity, failure modes, and supportability; ensure platforms are handed over to operations with documentation, monitoring, and a support model in place.
Keep the team aligned with change-management, audit, regulatory, and resilience requirements, and drive technology-risk remediation to closure.
Own OEM and platform vendor relationships, including roadmaps, escalations, lifecycle, and renewals.
Represent the team to senior technology leadership by communicating status, trade-offs, and decisions.