Senior DevOps & SRE Lead AWS, CI/CD, Production Reliability

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer capable of owning automation, reliability and production operations for AI/ML platforms. You will build CI/CD, observability and incident-management practices across international markets.

This VP-level role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and includes mentoring junior engineers, setting operational standards and partnering with platform, data and AI teams to harden services for production with stringent

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or systems concepts.
• Advanced proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and scripting in Python and/or shell.
• Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling and building release automation at scale.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerisation, and cloud-native operations.
• Proven experience running production services: observability, on-call, incident response, and reliability engineering.
• Understanding of production security and change-management controls.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to set operational standards across a team.
• Formal SRE experience in a regulated or high-availability environment.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent applied experience)

Responsibilities

• Owns and evolves the team's CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment tooling
• Establishes reliability practices (SLOs, error budgets, runbooks) and leads production incident response and post-incident review
• Builds and operates observability across the team's AI/ML services (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration through infrastructure-as-code
• Implements operational security, secrets management, and access controls to firm-wide standards
• Partners with platform, data, and AI engineers to harden services for production and reduce dependency on external functions
• Mentors junior engineers on DevOps and reliability practices and sets standards through review
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, Opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Terraform

Python & Shell scripting

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Cloud-native operations

Incident response

SRE experience

Operational security

Communication skills

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer capable of owning automation, reliability and production operations for AI/ML platforms. You will build CI/CD, observability and incident-management practices across international markets.

This VP-level role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and includes mentoring junior engineers, setting operational standards and partnering with platform, data and AI teams to harden services for production with stringent