MLOps Engineer

4797451
  • Job type

    Contract
  • Location

    Manchester
  • Working Pattern

    Full-time
  • Specialism

    Consultancy
  • Industry

    Technology & Internet Services
  • Pay

    550-600

MLOps Engineer | Inside IR35 | Manchester

MLOps Engineer
UK (Hybrid) | Competitive Day Rate

The Opportunity
We’re looking for a talented MLOps Engineer to help design, build, and scale cutting-edge machine learning and AI solutions for a client.
You’ll play a key role in bridging the gap between data science and engineering, ensuring models are deployed, monitored, and performing reliably in production. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact AI initiatives, including modern ML pipelines and Generative AI use cases.

What You’ll Be Doing
  • Design and implement end-to-end ML pipelines (training, deployment, monitoring)
  • Deploy and manage models in production using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML workflows
  • Work with tools like MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow or similar
  • Support model monitoring, performance tuning, and drift detection
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to productionise models
  • Contribute to data engineering and pipeline optimisation
  • Ensure best practices across scalability, reliability, and security
What We’re Looking For
  • Proven experience in MLOps, Machine Learning Engineering or Data Engineering
  • Strong coding skills in Python (essential)
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
  • Experience with monitoring and managing ML models in production
  • Understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes, and large datasets
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in agile environments
Nice to Have
  • Experience with Generative AI / LLMs (e.g. LangChain, OpenAI, vector DBs)
  • Exposure to real-time or streaming data pipelines
  • Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, etc.)

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