Senior MLOps Engineer - Databricks, AWS | Hybrid Melbourne

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 148,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited in Melbourne seeks an experienced Senior MLOps Data Engineer to design and operate scalable ML/data platforms using Databricks, FastAPI, and AWS.

You will build and support recommendation and personalisation systems, deploy ML pipelines end-to-end, and implement IaC with Terraform and AWS services. This is a hybrid role with an initial 6-month contract and a daily rate in AUS dollars.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, MLOps Engineering, or Machine Learning Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and ML capabilities
• Proven expertise developing scalable data and machine learning pipelines using FastAPI
• Strong experience with AWS, including services such as S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, SageMaker, Glue, or equivalent
• Commercial experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
• Experienced deploying, monitoring, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments
• Exposure to building or supporting recommendation engines, personalisation platforms, ranking models, or customer analytics solutions

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable ML and data platforms using Databricks, FastAPI, and AWS
• Building and supporting recommendation and personalisation systems that drive business outcomes
• Developing and operationalising machine learning pipelines, from data ingestion through model deployment and monitoring
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and AWS-native services
• Collaborating with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and Architects to deploy and manage production-grade AI solutions
• Establishing ML monitoring, observability, governance, and model performance frameworks
• Optimising data pipelines and feature engineering processes to support scalable ML use cases

Skills

Data engineering

MLOps

Databricks

FastAPI

AWS

IaC

ML pipelines

Tools

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Workflows

SageMaker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited in Melbourne seeks an experienced Senior MLOps Data Engineer to design and operate scalable ML/data platforms using Databricks, FastAPI, and AWS.

You will build and support recommendation and personalisation systems, deploy ML pipelines end-to-end, and implement IaC with Terraform and AWS services. This is a hybrid role with an initial 6-month contract and a daily rate in AUS dollars.