Senior MLOps Engineer: AI Platform & Automation

Hastings Direct; Bexhill-on-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Hybrid working

Car allowance

Annual leave 27 days + bank holidays

Job summary

Hastings Direct is seeking a Lead MLOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure for the full ML lifecycle. You will ensure models and data products are reliable, scalable and deliver measurable business value within our Telematics Data Value team.

The role sits in a fast-growing insurance tech environment, focusing on under-writing advantage through telematics data.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and ML platform experience in cloud environments.
• Experience with MLOps tooling and CI/CD, containerisation, orchestration, model deployment, monitoring, and automation.
• Experience with SQL and large-scale data platforms.
• Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience collaborating with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers and stakeholders.
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including testing, version control, code review, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on ML platform architecture and operating model.
• Develop automated workflows for feature engineering, training, testing, deployment, monitoring and retraining.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and ML Engineers to operationalise models and data products.
• Establish best practices for ML observability, performance monitoring, CI/CD, versioning, governance and reproducibility.
• Improve reliability and scalability of ML and data platforms.
• Work with cloud-native technologies and IaC for modern ML workloads.
• Present solutions and outcomes to stakeholders.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and set team standards.

Skills

Python

MLOps practices

CI/CD

SQL

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability

Software engineering practices

Problem solving

Independent work

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

ML platforms

Job description

Hastings Direct is seeking a Lead MLOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure for the full ML lifecycle. You will ensure models and data products are reliable, scalable and deliver measurable business value within our Telematics Data Value team.

The role sits in a fast-growing insurance tech environment, focusing on under-writing advantage through telematics data.