Senior SRE Lead: AI/Data Platform Reliability

Next Frontier Capital; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Manager - SRE to lead a 3-7 person SRE team and scale the AIML Data Platforms. You will tackle complex cloud data challenges, focusing on Data Lake Tools, and work in an agile environment with cross-functional teams.

You will drive reliability, security, and automation across data platforms, empowering AI capabilities with careful data governance and incident response best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Ability to manage highly technical team of Site Reliability Engineers.
• Experience leading teams in the safe use of enterprise AI capabilities within the work environment, with data sensitivity.
• Ability to set and reinforce organization-level practices for reviewing AI-assisted recommendations while maintaining security and auditability.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Databricks, or Snowflake platform administration and engineering support.
• Experience with monitoring tools, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in Python application program development with automated unit testing.
• Experience with Terraform development and understanding of Terraform enterprise.
• Experience in delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Knowledge of Big Data distributed compute frameworks like Spark, Glue, MapReduce etc.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers and support critical applications 24x7.
• Implements SRE best practices to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of data platforms.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve stability.
• Scale and maintain a managed AWS Databricks platform and provide engineering support for teams.
• Drives reuse-first adoption of enterprise AI capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams on architecture suitability.
• Drives continuous improvement in observability, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Collaborates with data teams to optimize infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Performs platform design, setup, workspace administration, resource monitoring.
• Develops secure production code and reviews code written by others.
• Contributes to team culture of diversity, opportunity, and respect.
• Develops and maintains incident response procedures and postmortems.

Skills

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

SRE principles

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerization

Kubernetes

Monitoring

Automation

Data platforms

Education

Formal training on software engineering concepts

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Manager - SRE to lead a 3-7 person SRE team and scale the AIML Data Platforms. You will tackle complex cloud data challenges, focusing on Data Lake Tools, and work in an agile environment with cross-functional teams.

You will drive reliability, security, and automation across data platforms, empowering AI capabilities with careful data governance and incident response best practices.