Sr Lead Infrastructure Engineer- Devops/AWS

Next Frontier Capital; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer - Vice President to own automation, reliability, and production operations for AI/ML services. You will build CI/CD, observability, and incident-management practices across international markets.

Leverage Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling to scale release automation and reliability, while mentoring engineers and enforcing security and change-management standards.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering or systems concepts.
• Advanced proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and scripting (Python/shell).
• Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling and release automation at scale.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerisation, and cloud-native operations.
• Proven production services experience: observability, on-call, incident response, reliability engineering.
• Understanding of production security and change-management controls.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent).

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 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.
• Mentors junior engineers on DevOps and reliability practices and sets standards through review.
• Champions diversity, inclusion, and respect within the team.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

SRE experience

Incident response

Python scripting

On-call

Security controls

Communication

Change management

Leadership

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on DevOps / SRE engineer ready to take their career to new heights. Join the ranks of top talent at one of the world's most influential companies.

As a Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer - Vice President at JPMorgan Chase within the International Private Bank (IPB) Technology Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) Team, you will own the automation, reliability, and production operations of our agentic AI and machine learning products. As the team takes end-to-end ownership of the platforms it runs, you will build the CI/CD, observability, and incident-management practices that keep those services stable, secure, and performant across international markets.

This is a Vice President-level role and an integral part of the IPB Tech AIML team, reporting to the Head of AI, IPB Tech.

Job 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering or systems concepts and applied experience
• Advanced proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., 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)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience operating ML / LLM workloads in production (MLOps, inference reliability, cost/performance management)
• Experience within financial services technology
• Familiarity with JPM-internal platform, cloud, and observability tooling for internal candidates

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.

Lead reliable AI products by owning automation, operations, and incident practices that empower teams to build, deploy, and run services.