Senior DataOps Engineer (Active SC Clearance)

Exalto Consulting; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Senior DataOps Engineer with active SC Clearance to join a cutting-edge project in machine learning. The role involves building data pipelines, ensuring data quality checks, and producing detailed cloud architectures. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with DevOps, Kubernetes, and a strong background in data governance. This position offers a remote/hybrid work model with an initial contract of 6 months and a daily rate of £625, outside IR35.

Qualifications

• Must hold active SC Clearance and be a UK sole nationality with UK Residency.
• Experience in data governance, labelling, and building data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Work on data governance and labelling.
• Build data pipelines and runners.
• Construct quality control and data schema checks.
• Produce detailed cloud architectures.
• Lead DataOps efforts for machine learning teams.

Skills

Data governance

Building data pipelines

Quality control checks

DevOps knowledge

Cloud architecture

Containerisation technologies

Kubernetes

DataOps experience

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Job description

Senior DataOps Engineer (Active SC Clearance)

You must hold active and current SC Clearance , be a UK sole nationality and have UK Residency.

Location and Rate

Remote / hybrid with occasional travel to offices (North and South) and customer site (South).

£625pd, outside IR35.

Contract Length

6 months initially.

This project is at the cutting edge of machine learning, working with a talented team delivering important advances for a large government department.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Good experience and understanding of data governance, labelling, ontologies.
• Building data pipelines and runners.
• Able to construct strict quality control and data schema checks.
• Good knowledge of DevOps and cloud infrastructure, and able to produce quality, detailed cloud architectures.
• Hands on with containerisation technologies, good Kubernetes experience is strongly desirable.
• Ideally worked providing DataOps / Data Engineering to enable advanced Machine Learning and Data Science Teams.
• Good communicator.
• Team player with leadership skills.

Please apply immediately if you hold active and current SC Clearance and have the skills required above, as this is an urgent requirement, you must be able to start the contract in the first week of January.