Cloud-Native MLOps Engineer for Data & AI

DPR Construction; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DPR Construction is seeking an experienced MLOps Engineer to join their Data and AI team in Houston, Texas. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, cloud-native solutions and managing DataOps pipelines to support AI initiatives. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and strong proficiency with cloud technologies, especially Azure. The position offers a chance to work in a forward-thinking environment with significant opportunities for growth and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, MLOps, Data Engineering, Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and experience with a major cloud provider, preferably Azure.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, preferably Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on implementation of automation-first DevOps and MLOps practices.
• Design and manage intelligent DataOps pipelines.
• Standardize observability practices across development teams.
• Design and deploy containerized ML workloads.
• Implement AI-driven data validation and schema drift detection.

Skills

Automation-first DevOps and MLOps practices

DataOps pipelines

Observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)

Containerized ML workloads

AI-driven data validation

Infrastructure provisioning automation

Reusable patterns and documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

Datadog

Grafana

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

Job description

DPR Construction is seeking an experienced MLOps Engineer to join their Data and AI team in Houston, Texas. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, cloud-native solutions and managing DataOps pipelines to support AI initiatives. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and strong proficiency with cloud technologies, especially Azure. The position offers a chance to work in a forward-thinking environment with significant opportunities for growth and impact.