Junior DevOps Engineer - ML

Job Description:

Junior DevOps Engineer - ML

Salary: From £40,600.00 plus benefits

Contract type: Permanent

Shift pattern: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

Location : Hybrid / Any Bupa offer 2 days per week

We make health happen

Working in our UK support functions you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

Role Overview

As a Junior MLOps Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, deploying, and maintaining AI/ML systems built on the Azure platform. You will work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to operationalize machine learning models, automate workflows, and ensure the reliability and scalability of AI solutions across environments.

This role is ideal for individuals with hands on experience in cloud-based MLOps workflows who are ready to take ownership of end to end components, improve existing pipelines, and contribute to the maturity of the organization's AI engineering ecosystem.

How you'll help us make health happen:

• Design, implement and maintain MLOps pipelines for deploying AI/ML models using Azure Machine Learning.
• Build and automate CI/CD workflows for AI systems using Azure DevOps, Azure CLI, and Git-based workflows.
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionize models, optimize inference performance, and streamline deployment workflows.
• Implement monitoring solutions for AI systems, including performance tracking, drift indicators, logging, and alerting.
• Contribute to model lifecycle management: versioning, packaging, registry updates, staging-to-production promotion and rollback.
• Optimize compute, storage, and infrastructure usage for cost efficiency and reliability.
• Deploy and maintain containerized applications (e.g., Flask or FastAPI services) that serve ML models.
• Troubleshoot operational issues in dev/test/prod environments and support root-cause analysis.
• Document architecture, workflows, and operational guidelines for broader engineering teams

Key Skills / Qualifications Needed For This Role

• 2-3 years of experience in MLOps, DevOps, Data Engineering, or related cloud engineering roles.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure Machine Learning (workspaces, endpoints, model registry, compute clusters).
• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, Azure CLI, or similar tooling).
• Proficiency in Python and experience using Azure SDKs for AI/ML workflows.
• Practical understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration concepts.
• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting (e.g., Azure Monitor, Application Insights).
• Good understanding of cloud identity concepts (Managed Identity, RBAC).
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently on mid‑sized features or components.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge, Staines - Willow House