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 timeJob Area:
ITLocations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge, Staines - Willow House
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challenging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.
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