MLOps Engineer
London / £80000 - £90000
INFO
£80000 - £90000
LOCATION
London
Permanent
MLOps Engineer
£80,000-90,000
London
THE COMPANY
A well-known name, this company provide an e-commerce platform for buying and selling your car. They've proved to be very successful, and have had sustainable growth over the last 5 years.
THE ROLE
Working within their data and analytics function, this role will focus on optimizing how the existing team have built their ML models. You'll be involved in a variety of projects including coding, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and putting models into deployment. A thorough understanding of the ML process is needed - you'll have to be confident enough to challenge other data scientists on how they've built their models, and determine whether they're scalable and robust.
You'll also work collaboratively to automate and streamline new operations and processes, working in cross-functional Agile engineering teams.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The ideal candidate will have:
- Expertise in Machine Learning techniques
- Experience with DevOps, Platform Engineering or Data Engineering for an ML team
- Proficiency with Python
- Competency with Docker, Kubernetes and orchestration tools
- Strong experience of AWS for model deployment
- Degree-educated in a relevant STEM subject
BENEFITS
£80,000-90,000pa
Competitive bonuses and benefits package
Flexible Hybrid working pattern
APPLY
Please apply using the apply link on this page and quoting the reference VACMAC144
For more information contact Matt Cooke on the Harnham website or LinkedIn
KEYWORDS
Machine learning, data engineering, MLOps, DevOps, AWS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, London,
CONTACT
Matt Cooke
Recruitment Consultant
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