Azure MLOps Engineer — Production ML & Real-Time Inference

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Azure MLOps Engineer to deploy, automate, and manage ML solutions in Azure. You will collaborate with data scientists, forecast teams, developers and DevOps to deliver scalable, secure MLOps platforms for large data processing and real-time inference workloads.

The role emphasizes production ML operations, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, security and governance, plus data pipelines and versioning across storage solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in MLOps, DevOps, or related engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of the ML lifecycle and production ML operations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Machine Learning and MLOps frameworks.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Strong Python skills and experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
• Experience with Docker, Azure SQL Database, Storage Accounts, Blob Storage, and SQL/NoSQL technologies.
• Experience monitoring and supporting production ML environments.
• Knowledge of data engineering practices and tools.
• Azure Data Scientist Associate certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage ML models in production using Azure Machine Learning.
• Design and maintain Azure-based MLOps infrastructure.
• Build and support Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for ML artefacts.
• Implement monitoring, logging, security, and governance controls.
• Manage data pipelines, storage solutions, data versioning, and lineage tracking.
• Support real-time inference and scalable ML workloads, including auto-scaling.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to optimise model performance and platform reliability.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation.

Skills

Azure Machine Learning

Python

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Docker

SQL/NoSQL

Data pipelines

Azure DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Azure MLOps Engineer to deploy, automate, and manage ML solutions in Azure. You will collaborate with data scientists, forecast teams, developers and DevOps to deliver scalable, secure MLOps platforms for large data processing and real-time inference workloads.

The role emphasizes production ML operations, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, security and governance, plus data pipelines and versioning across storage solutions.