Senior MLOps Engineer: Scale Production ML on AWS

Understanding Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a London-based company to hire a Senior MLOps Engineer who will take technical ownership of an AWS-native ML platform.

The role focuses on scaling real ML systems, automating infrastructure, observability, and preparing for GenAI applications, rather than model experimentation. You will drive reliability and performance in production within a lean, ownership-driven team.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying real ML systems in production.
• Hands-on AWS SageMaker and Python.
• Experience designing ML pipelines and deployment automation.
• Ability to debug complex production issues and make architectural decisions.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Iceberg, Athena or Parquet is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the scaling of the existing AWS-native ML platform.
• Ensure models reach production reliably and scale.
• Automate, observe, and improve infrastructure for ML workloads.
• Make architectural decisions independently.

Skills

Production ML systems

AWS SageMaker

Python

ML pipeline design

Deployment automation

System monitoring

Cloud-native infrastructure

Data engineering

Debug production issues

Architectural decisions

Kafka

Iceberg

Athena

Parquet

Job description

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a London-based company to hire a Senior MLOps Engineer who will take technical ownership of an AWS-native ML platform.

The role focuses on scaling real ML systems, automating infrastructure, observability, and preparing for GenAI applications, rather than model experimentation. You will drive reliability and performance in production within a lean, ownership-driven team.