MLOps Engineer

DPR Construction; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recognized as a great place to work

Opportunity for career growth

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking an experienced MLOps Engineer to join its Data and AI team in Charlotte, NC. The role involves designing and implementing cloud-native solutions, automating DevOps and MLOps practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, along with 5+ years of experience in related areas. This position offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects and contribute to the company's AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, MLOps, or Data Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably Azure.
• Proficient in Python and ML frameworks like TensorFlow.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation of DevOps and MLOps practices.
• Design DataOps pipelines with automated quality monitoring.
• Standardize observability practices across AI/ML teams.

Skills

CI/CD processes

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Container orchestration

Model explainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Job description

Job Description

DPR is looking for an experienced Data and MLOps Engineer to join our Data and AI team and work closely with the Data Platform, BI and Enterprise architecture teams to influence the technical direction of DPR’s AI initiatives. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams, including business stakeholders, data engineers, and technical leads, to ensure alignment between business needs and data architecture and define data models for specific focus areas.

MLOps Engineer

DPR is a leading construction company committed to delivering high‑quality, innovative projects. Our team integrates cutting‑edge technologies into the construction process to streamline operations, enhance decision‑making, and drive efficiency at all levels. We are looking for a MLOps Engineer to join our team and contribute to developing robust data solutions to support our Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Engineering and Software Engineering.

Position Overview

The MLOps Engineer will be instrumental in the design and implementation of scalable, cloud‑native solutions to meet the growing needs of our Data & Development team. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to abstract complexity and create reusable, scalable patterns that accelerate development. The MLOps Engineer will design, build and support the infrastructure and systems that enable our teams to deliver reliable, high‑impact data, workflows, and collaborating closely with data engineers, software developers, data scientists and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands‑on implementation of automation‑first DevOps and MLOps practices, enabling infrastructure‑as‑code and consistent, repeatable environment provisioning
• Design and manage intelligent DataOps pipelines with automated data quality monitoring and anomaly detection
• Standardize observability practices across AI/ML and other development teams including logging, metrics, tracing, and model performance monitoring, ingesting data from multiple platforms
• Design and deploy containerized ML workloads, partnering with Infrastructure Engineering for cluster provisioning and governance
• Extend existing CI/CD pipelines to support automated infrastructure changes and ML workflows
• Implement AI‑driven data validation, schema drift detection, and metadata management
• Establish governance frameworks for AI systems, including bias detection, explainability, and auditability
• Extend existing Azure RBAC strategy by automating role and permission management to reduce manual intervention
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering to automate infrastructure provisioning
• Act as a technical point of contact for DevOps and MLOps practices, developing reusable patterns, documentation, and proof‑of‑concepts to drive adoption

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, MLOps, Data Engineering, Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and experience working with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Azure
• Proficiency in at least one objected‑oriented programming language, preferably python with hands‑on experience in ml frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch or Scikit‑learn

Required Skills

• Experience with CI/CD processes and automation
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep
• Proficiency in containerized application deployments and container orchestration – experience with Kubernetes, especially AKS would be a huge plus
• Experience standing up and managing observability tools such as Datadog, Azure Monitor or Grafana for APM, LLM Ops and model performance monitoring
• Experience deploying production‑ready machine learning models
• Experience with Model explainability (SHAP, LIME) or similar
• Experience with cloud cost management and practices (e.g., Azure Cost Management, chargeback/show back models)

Nice to Have

• Experience in Azure, particularly AKS, ACR, ARM, App Service, Azure Machine Learning and AI Foundry, Azure Monitor
• Familiarity with semantic search, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), or embedding pipelines
• Exposure to managing and monitoring ML workloads that support generative AI or advanced analytics use cases
• Proficiency with Snowflake
• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Apache Airflow, Argo Workflow, Prefect, etc.

DPR Construction is a forward‑thinking, self‑performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee‑owned company that has grown into a multi‑billion‑dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.