Senior VP: AI Platform & ML Production Leader

J.P. MORGAN; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer - Senior VP to own and shape the IPB AIML platform, tooling, and infrastructure.

You will lead deployment pipelines, model serving, containerisation, orchestration, and environment management for production AI/ML services. You will set standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and build tooling to help AI engineers ship agentic AI and ML products safely and quickly.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 5+ years of 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).
• Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent applied experience).

Responsibilities

• Owns the design and build of the team's platform: deployment pipelines, model serving, containerisation, orchestration, and environment management
• Sets the standard for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the team's production AI/ML services
• Builds the tooling and paved paths that let AI engineers 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, and coordinates with external infrastructure functions to reduce operational dependency and 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 review
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, Opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Python

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

MLOps / LLM ops

Observability tooling

Security controls

Communication skills

CKAD certification

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Containerisation

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer - Senior VP to own and shape the IPB AIML platform, tooling, and infrastructure.

You will lead deployment pipelines, model serving, containerisation, orchestration, and environment management for production AI/ML services. You will set standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and build tooling to help AI engineers ship agentic AI and ML products safely and quickly.