VP DevOps & SRE Engineer - AI/ML Infra, AWS

J.P. MORGAN; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; 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 in the IPB AIML team. You will build CI/CD, observability, and incident-management practices to keep services secure, stable, and performant across international markets.

The role leads end-to-end platform ownership, mentors engineers, and aligns with firm-wide security and change controls while reporting to the Head of AI, IPB Tech.

Qualifications

• 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)

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

Infrastructure-as-code

Python scripting

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Observability & incident response

Security & change-management

Communication & standards

SRE in regulated environments

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

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 in the IPB AIML team. You will build CI/CD, observability, and incident-management practices to keep services secure, stable, and performant across international markets.

The role leads end-to-end platform ownership, mentors engineers, and aligns with firm-wide security and change controls while reporting to the Head of AI, IPB Tech.