Lead Mlops Engineer

Role purpose Lead the design, delivery and operation of robust, production-grade MLOps/AIOps capabilities that move Dyson’s ML, AI and GenAI/agent systems from development into reliable production, and keep them healthy at scale. Own and evolve the engineering patterns for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, deployment, monitoring and lifecycle management, and set the standards followed across the Data Science and AI estate Role overview

• Combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership
• Leads deployment and operation of scalable ML and AI/agent systems
• Designs and runs CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
• Implements monitoring, logging, evaluation and lifecycle management
• Works closely with data science, AI engineering, platform, security and governance teams
• Ensures solutions are reliable, secure and compliant with organisational standards
• Mentors engineers and raises the bar for engineering practices across the team and drives continuous improvement Key responsibilities Build & Deploy
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML, AI and agent systems
• Deploy and operate ML models and AI/agents in production (e.g. Cloud Run, containerised services)
• Develop containerisation and orchestration strategies Platform & Infrastructure
• Architect and manage solutions on cloud infrastructure (GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Optimise infrastructure for performance, scalability and cost
• Define and evolve the MLOps/AIOps platform roadmap, aligning with AI, cloud and governance strategies Observability & Quality
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability across performance, latency, errors and drift
• Build and run evaluation pipelines, regression testing and drift detection Lifecycle & Reliability
• Manage model and agent lifecycle (versioning, rollout/rollback, retraining, decommissioning) Own production reliability, incident response and on-call Agent Systems
• Operate AI agent systems, including MCP-based integrations, ensuring observability, evaluation and reliability Cross-team enablement
• Enable multiple teams to adopt standardised deployment, monitoring and lifecycle patterns across ML and AI systems Experience & qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (Master’s preferred). ~5+ years in MLOps, ML engineering or cloud engineering. Strong experience with Python, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, and deep familiarity with GCP and its ML ecosystem.

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