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MLOps Engineer
Val*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomFull timeExp: 3+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Equity, employer pension contributions, private health insurance, gym memberships, company retreats and meetups
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Senior MLOps / LLMOps Engineer leads deployment, orchestration, monitoring, and reliability for production LLM applications and agentic AI workflows. The role operates secure AI services and data pipelines in large-scale Kubernetes environments, builds CI/CD, observability, and evaluation systems, and optimizes inference performance and infrastructure costs using technologies such as Python, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and vector databases.
Benefits
EquityEmployer pension contributionsPrivate health insuranceGym membershipsCompany retreats and meetups
Qualifications
- At least 3 years of experience in MLOps, LLMOps, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, or SRE focused on machine learning workloads.
- Experience deploying complex containerized applications at scale on Kubernetes, including EKS, GKE, AKS, or bare metal.
- Strong Python skills for automation, debugging, tooling, and integrations.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, LLM tracing, and evaluation platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Operational understanding of agentic architectures, prompt chaining, function calling, tool execution, and non-deterministic applications.
- Experience operating RAG pipelines and production vector databases.
- Exposure to agent development and orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with high-performance LLM serving engines and frameworks.
- Understanding of AI security practices and rate limiting or cost controls.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage LLM services, agentic applications, and AI workloads in high-throughput Kubernetes clusters.
- Automate containerized deployments, inference endpoints, and blue/green or canary releases through CI/CD pipelines.
- Operate agentic workflows, including multi-step tool execution, state management, and multi-agent coordination.
- Triage and resolve issues across AI application logic, orchestration frameworks, external APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Build monitoring and evaluation frameworks for output accuracy, drift, latency, cost, and hallucinations.
- Implement trace-level observability for prompts, completions, tool calls, and agent steps.
- Monitor and optimize AI data pipelines, feature stores, vector indexing, and embedding updates.
- Optimize GPU and CPU allocation, memory use, autoscaling, infrastructure costs, time-to-first-token, and throughput.
Skills
AKSArgo CDDatadogEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIGKEGrafanaKubernetesOpenTelemetryPrometheusPulumiPythonTerraform
Languages
Python
Industry
Dual-use technologySecurity
Relocation
No