DevOps and IoT Platform Engineer

Job Title: DevOps & IoT Platform Engineer Location: Redruth, Cornwall UK Location Type: Hybrid (2/3) Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/ Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/ Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more. Job Summary: The DevOps & IoT Platform Engineer is responsible for supporting the build, operation, automation, and reliability of the digital infrastructure that underpins Watson-Marlow’s connected products and industrial IoT capabilities. The role will initially focus on DevOps, cloud platform operations, IoT data flows, deployment automation, environment management, monitoring, and secure integration between connected devices, cloud services, data platforms, and engineering teams. As the capability matures, the role will provide a clear development path into MLOps and ML platform engineering, supporting model deployment, model lifecycle controls, ML pipeline automation, and governed promotion of machine learning solutions from development into production. Key Responsibilities: DevOps, cloud operations and platform reliability Build, maintain and improve automation for cloud and IoT platform services that support connected products.Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, environment controls and repeatable release processes using tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps and related platform tooling.Help maintain Azure-based development, test, QA and production environments used by digital, IoT, data and ML platforms.Contribute to secure platform configuration, access control, secrets management, monitoring and operational governance.Monitor platform health, investigate operational issues and contribute to improving reliability, supportability and repeatability across digital product environments.IoT data flows, data pipelines and operational support Support reliable device-to-cloud data flows from connected products, gateways, cloud services and downstream data platforms.Work with telemetry, time-series and industrial IoT data sources, helping to ensure data is available, structured and usable for engineering, product and analytics teams.Support operational data pipelines that provide reliable data for engineering analytics, product insights, connected services and machine learning use cases.Assist with troubleshooting data ingestion, connectivity, data quality and integration issues across the connected-products ecosystem.Document deployment steps, support processes and platform knowledge to improve maintainability and reduce reliance on manual intervention.Collaboration, security and controlled platform change Work with IT, cyber security, software, firmware and supplier teams to support service availability, incident resolution and controlled platform change.Contribute to data validation, monitoring, transformation and handover between operational platforms and analytical environments.Proactively identify opportunities to simplify, automate and strengthen digital platform delivery.Growth into MLOps and ML platform engineering Develop capability in MLOps practices such as experiment tracking, model packaging, model registry, model promotion and governed deployment workflows.Support AI developers with repeatable workflows that move ML code, configuration and artefacts through controlled development, test, QA and production stages.Contribute to the longer-term development of the ML platform, including quality gates, lifecycle controls, operational monitoring and supportability. Skills/Experience: Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)Skills & Experience Essential: Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, software deployment, or infrastructure automationExperience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, branching strategies, pull requests, and release workflows using GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar toolsExposure to Azure cloud services and operational practices, including monitoring, access control, environment management, and secure configurationExperience working with IoT, telemetry, time-series, connected-product, or industrial data platformsProficiency in scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent toolingUnderstanding of data pipelines, APIs, integration patterns, and operational troubleshootingStrong problem-solving skills with the ability to work across software, data, cloud, and connected-product teamsDesirable: Experience with Azure IoT services, Azure Data Explorer, Databricks, containerisation, APIs, or cloud-native application deploymentExperience with infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, logging, or platform monitoringAwareness of MLOps concepts such as MLflow, model registry, model promotion, model monitoring, and governed deployment pipelinesExposure to machine learning workflows or data science environments, with an interest in developing into ML platform engineeringExperience working with industrial equipment, embedded systems, firmware teams, or device-to-cloud architectures