Senior MLOps & AI Engineer – UK Production

Vodafone; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vodafone VOIS is seeking a Senior ML & AI Engineer to join the Digital Engineering, Digital & IT team in the UK, with hybrid work options across Newbury and Paddington. You will turn validated data science and generative-AI into secure, scalable production services, owning end-to-end lifecycle including deployment, evaluation, observability and governance.

The role requires strong Python, API and container skills, experience with Vertex AI or similar managed ML platforms, and a hands-on track

Formación

• Substantial practical experience in software, platform or ML Engineering, including production ML/AI delivery.
• Strong Python and software-engineering capability across APIs, automated testing, containers and continuous delivery.
• Experience with Vertex AI or equivalent managed ML platforms and model-serving services.
• Practical experience implementing MLOps, including model registries, versioning, deployment, rollback and monitoring.
• Relevant experience with generative-AI evaluation and LLMOps.
• Knowledge of responsible AI engineering, including privacy, security, human oversight, explainability, safety and model-risk controls.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement production machine-learning, generative-AI and justified agent-based services, including inference, feature processing, serving and integration.
• Productionise validated ML, generative-AI and agent-based solutions using approved Data Platform capabilities.
• Establish MLOps and LLMOps practices covering versioning, testing, automated evaluation, continuous delivery, deployment, rollback and environment promotion.
• Implement proportionate AI evaluation covering quality, safety, hallucination, bias, robustness and task performance.
• Own production monitoring and operational readiness across drift, latency, availability and cost.
• Establish appropriate guardrails, runbooks, incident-response processes and audit evidence for production AI services.
• Partner with the Lead Data Scientist and Data Engineers to translate validated scientific approaches into reliable production services.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and provider trade-offs, considering performance, security, portability, reliability, provider dependency and cost.
• Apply appropriate privacy, security, human oversight, explainability, safety and model-risk controls throughout the production lifecycle.
• Use AI-assisted engineering practices while maintaining human accountability, validation, traceability and production discipline.

Conocimientos

Python programming

APIs

Automated testing

Containers

CI/CD

Vertex AI

MLOps

LLMOps

Model serving

Responsible AI

Herramientas

Vertex AI

CI/CD pipelines

Descripción del empleo

Vodafone VOIS is seeking a Senior ML & AI Engineer to join the Digital Engineering, Digital & IT team in the UK, with hybrid work options across Newbury and Paddington. You will turn validated data science and generative-AI into secure, scalable production services, owning end-to-end lifecycle including deployment, evaluation, observability and governance.

The role requires strong Python, API and container skills, experience with Vertex AI or similar managed ML platforms, and a hands-on track