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Job Title: MLOps Engineer
Location: 1 day / week in Cardiff office
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are respected, established and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a global impact in the marine domain by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies, products and systems that significantly enhance security, safety and environment protection and sustainability. Our customers are worldwide and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

About The Role

SRT’s vision is to make innovative use of publicly available data, augmenting it with proprietary data as a differentiator in the Maritime Domain Awareness market. Data Science and Machine Learning are essential components to achieving this goal. You will be part of a data-oriented team responsible for research and delivery, valuing collaboration, open, honest and timely feedback. You will be encouraged to bring your knowledge, experience, ideas and perspective to help solve the challenges put to you.

• Help develop and evaluate machine learning models to solve maritime problems such as object detection, classification and outlier detection in time-series and image/video data.
• Build, automate, and maintain ML training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD for data science workflows, ensuring version control for data, models, and experiments.
• Establish testing and validation frameworks for ML models, datasets, and API endpoints.
• Monitor model and system performance post-deployment; implement QA checks and regression tests where necessary.
• Support the rest of the team by developing helper tools for dataset management, annotation, and evaluation.
• Maintain documentation of workflows, testing, and deployment processes.

• Solid experience in Python, with practical use of ML and data-science libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, pandas).
• Working knowledge of DevOps/MLOps practices - CI/CD, Docker, Git, and environment management.
• Experience designing or maintaining automated testing and QA frameworks for data systems.
• Understanding of model lifecycle management (training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring).
• Familiarity with data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Good communication and organisational skills; able to coordinate across research and engineering.

• Ambition – Aspiring to lead in maritime domain management.
• Innovation – Driving improvement through creativity and forward-thinking.
• Quality – Committing to high standards in performance and reliability.
• Responsibility – Being individually accountable and team-driven.
• Team – Collaborating openly with colleagues, partners, and customers.

• Work on mission-critical maritime surveillance systems used worldwide.
• Be part of an ambitious, innovative, and supportive team.
• Make a direct impact on global maritime safety and sustainability.
• Enjoy flexible hybrid working.

• Matched pension contributions up to 5%
• 25 days annual leave (rising to 28 with service)
• Private health care
• Flexible working opportunities
• Development and training programmes

SRT Marine plc is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from all backgrounds.