MLOps / Cloud Deployment Engineer

Xenon7; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Xenon7 in Hyderabad, India, seeks an experienced MLOps/Cloud Deployment Engineer to own deployment, reliability, observability and scale of AI systems in a regulated enterprise environment. This cloud and platform engineering role focuses on MLOps/LLMOps, not model building; you will operate the runway that ML and GenAI systems run on, not train the models.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD for ML, deploying workloads on cloud-native platforms, implementing governance, and ensuring secure,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud/DevOps/MLOps engineering on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Production deployment of ML/GenAI systems — CI/CD, containers, IaC.
• MLOps tooling such as MLflow or SageMaker/Azure ML Pipelines.
• LLM/GenAI ops with observability and cost monitoring.
• Hands-on with cloud-native AI platforms (Bedrock/SageMaker/Azure Foundry).
• Strong Python, Bash, and infrastructure scripting skills.
• Security and governance in regulated environments (RBAC, secrets).

Responsibilities

• Own CI/CD pipelines for ML models, RAG apps, and agentic AI systems — from experiment to production
• Deploy and operate AI workloads on cloud-native platforms — AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure ML/Foundry
• Build observability, tracing, and monitoring for LLM/agentic systems — latency, cost, drift
• Implement model governance and guardrails — gates, kill-switches, audit trails
• Manage infrastructure-as-code for reproducible AI/ML environments (Terraform, Bicep)
• Design cost and performance optimization — token usage, caching, autoscaling
• Own security posture — RBAC, secret management, prompt-injection risk mitigation
• Partner with data engineers and stakeholders to move systems to production
• Implement evaluation frameworks for AI systems — regression/adversarial testing, metrics

Skills

Cloud/DevOps/MLOps

Prod ML deployment

ML/Ops tooling

LLM/GenAI ops

Cloud platforms

Python scripting

Security governance

Tools

MLflow

SageMaker Pipelines

Azure ML Pipelines

LangSmith

Weights & Biases

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Our Client's Digital Finance IT is scaling AI and agentic systems in production. We need an MLOps / Cloud Deployment Engineer to own the deployment, reliability, observability, and operational scale of these systems in a regulated enterprise environment.

This is a cloud and platform engineering role with deep MLOps/LLMOps focus, not a model-building role. You will operate the runway that ML and GenAI systems run on, not build the models themselves.

What You'll Do

• Own CI/CD pipelines for ML models, RAG applications, and agentic AI systems — from experiment to production
• Deploy and operate AI workloads on cloud-native ML/AI platforms — AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry / Azure Machine Learning, or equivalent
• Build and maintain observability, tracing, and monitoring for LLM and agentic systems — latency, cost, hallucination rates, tool-call success, drift detection
• Implement model governance and guardrails — approval gates, kill-switches, escalation paths, audit trails
• Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent) for reproducible AI/ML environments
• Design cost and performance optimization strategies — token usage tracking, caching, model routing, autoscaling, warehouse/cluster right-sizing
• Own security posture — RBAC, secret management (Key Vault / Secrets Manager), prompt-injection risk mitigation, auditability for regulated pharma
• Partner with data engineers, AI engineers, and Finance business stakeholders to move systems from prototype to reliable production
• Implement evaluation frameworks for AI systems in production — regression testing, adversarial testing, accuracy tracking, hallucination monitoring

Must-Have Experience

• 5+ years in cloud/DevOps/MLOps engineering on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Production deployment of ML or GenAI systems — CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• MLOps tooling — MLflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Azure ML Pipelines, or equivalent
• LLM/GenAI operational experience — observability tools (LangSmith, Weights & Biases, or equivalent), cost monitoring, latency optimization, prompt/model versioning
• Cloud-native AI platforms — hands-on with at least one of: AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI
• Python, Bash, and infrastructure scripting — strong
• Security and governance in regulated environments — RBAC, secrets, audit, compliance

Nice to Have

• Pharma, life sciences, or regulated financial services domain
• Experience operating agentic AI systems in production — multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, human-in-the-loop workflows
• LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel operational experience
• Kubernetes-native ML platforms (Kubeflow, Ray)
• Snowflake or Databricks operational experience (compute governance, cost management)
• Certifications: AWS/Azure ML Engineer, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD, Terraform Associate

What We're NOT Looking For

• Data Scientists or research engineers — this is a production platform role
• Application developers with light DevOps exposure — need real MLOps/cloud engineering depth
• Pure infra engineers with no AI/ML operational experience — need to understand what makes LLM systems different (evals, hallucinations, prompt versioning, RAG grounding)