Contract MLOps/AI Engineer - Python, Azure, GenAI - Inside IR35 - £650/day

RecOps is partnered with a leading consultancy looking for an experienced MLOps/AI Engineer to support the development and deployment of production AI applications for one of their end clients.

This is a hands-on engineering role combining Python, Generative AI and Azure cloud engineering, with responsibility for building, deploying and supporting AI systems in production.

The role pays up to £650 per day, with a preference for candidates who can attend the central London office once per week.

Key Skills Required:

• Strong Python software engineering experience

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG and Generative AI applications

• Azure cloud engineering and deployment

• Backend API development, ideally FastAPI

• Docker and containerisation

• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

• Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform

• Production monitoring, troubleshooting and support

Desirable:

• Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search

• LangChain, LangGraph or agentic AI frameworks

• Kubernetes and Azure Machine Learning

• Document ingestion and vector search pipelines

Please apply now for immediate consideration.