AI Ops Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health care

Life assurance

Access to training resources

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in the UK is seeking an AI Ops Engineer. In this role, you will ensure that AI systems are reliable and secure, manage deployment and lifecycle processes, and optimize performance. Requires skills in Python integration with front-end frameworks, familiarity with MLOps, and a solid understanding of data security. This position offers a competitive salary and extensive training resources.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React.
• Familiarity with managing large-scale enterprise datasets.
• Understanding of data security and compliance practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate deployment pipelines for AI models.
• Manage AI system lifecycle and ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with teams to implement scalable AI infrastructure.

Skills

Integrating Python backends

MLOps practices

Agile delivery

Data security knowledge

Domain knowledge in aeroengine

Job description

Overview

Ready to utilize your experience and expertise in AI and Data?

We have in exciting role for you – AI Ops Engineer!

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Grow your career, while being exposed to new technologies.
• Guide and collaborate with some of the brightest global minds in the industry.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.

The Role

AI Ops Engineer, you will ensure AI systems are reliable, scalable, secure, and governable in production. You will own the operational backbone of AI: deployment, monitoring, lifecycle management, and compliance.

Your responsibilities

• Design and operate deployment pipelines (CI/CD for models and prompts and related artefacts.)
• Manage lifecycle: versioning, promotion, rollback, and retirement.
• Implement monitoring and observability (performance, user interaction, drift, data quality.)
• Ensure AI systems meet security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Optimise inference performance, scalability, and cost.
• Manage infrastructure for training and inference (cloud, containers, GPUs.)
• Enable reproducibility through experiment tracking and artefact management.
• Support incident response and root-cause analysis for AI failures.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to design and implement scalable and reliable machine learning infrastructure.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for machine learning projects, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes.
• Monitor and maintain the performance of machine learning models in production, troubleshooting and resolving any issues that arise.
• Implement best practices for version control, testing, and documentation of machine learning code and models.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of machine learning solutions into existing systems and workflows.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning and DevOps technologies, and continuously improve the infrastructure and processes.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Experience integrating Python backends with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React.)
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise datasets and knowledge management systems.
• Familiarity with MLOps practices for deploying and monitoring AI.
• Understanding of Agile delivery, ADO/Jira workflows, and collaborative development.
• Knowledge of data security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
• Domain knowledge in aeroengine and manufacturing.

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellbeing initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at [e-mail] if you would like to opt in.

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at [e-mail] with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / [phone] to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

Fraud prevention

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Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.

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