Senior VP, AI Platform Engineer — MLOps & Cloud

Archer; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer – Senior VP to lead the platform, tooling, and infrastructure for IPB AI/ML products. You will shape deployment, scalability, security, and reliability as the team scales to run multiple production platforms.

The Senior VP role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and requires mentoring engineers, advancing platform standards, and driving cost/performance management in a production ML environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and infrastructure-as-code, with modern software engineering practices.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerisation, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Strong CI/CD experience and a track record of building deployment and release automation.
• Experience serving, scaling, and monitoring ML models or data-intensive services in production (MLOps).
• Practical experience with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and production incident response.
• Experience operating ML / LLM workloads in production (LLMOps, inference reliability, cost/performance management).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to set standards other engineers adopt.
• Industry-recognised container / Kubernetes certification (e.g., CKAD).
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent applied experience).

Responsibilities

• Owns design and build of the team's platform: deployment pipelines, model serving, containers, orchestration, and environment management.
• Sets the standard for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the team's production AI/ML services.
• Builds tooling and paved paths enabling AI engineers to ship agentic AI and ML products safely and quickly.
• Implements platform-level security, secrets management, and access controls to firm-wide standards.
• Partners with data and AI engineers to productionise models, coordinating with external infra functions to reduce risk.
• Leads capacity, cost, and performance management for the team's compute and inference workloads.
• Mentors platform and DevOps engineers and sets engineering standards through design and code reviews.
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Python

IaC

Kubernetes

Containerisation

Cloud-native deployment

CI/CD

MLOps

LLMOps

Observability

Incident response

Communication

CKAD

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer – Senior VP to lead the platform, tooling, and infrastructure for IPB AI/ML products. You will shape deployment, scalability, security, and reliability as the team scales to run multiple production platforms.

The Senior VP role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and requires mentoring engineers, advancing platform standards, and driving cost/performance management in a production ML environment.