Lead MLOps Engineer

Job Title: Lead MLOps Engineer

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55k depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Operationalise model and LLM deployment with CI/CD, governance, monitoring and promotion controls
• Build CI/CD pipelines for ML and LLM services using Gitlab runners
• Manage model lifecycle: versioning, promotion and rollback across environments
• Operate MLflow tracking and model registry
• Deploy inference services into OpenShift with monitoring and alerting
• Integrate secrets and credentials securely via Vault

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes-based deployment ML lifecycle governance and observability
• Use of tools such as MLflow, GitLab CI/CD, OpenShi...