VP DevOps/SRE Lead — Cloud Infra, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fairygodboss; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

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

As part of the IPB Tech AIML team, you will lead reliability engineering in a regulated environment, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise standards and security."

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

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes & containerization

Infrastructure as code

Production incident response

Security & change management

Communication

SRE experience

Regulated environment experience

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

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

As part of the IPB Tech AIML team, you will lead reliability engineering in a regulated environment, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise standards and security."