Senior AI/ML DevOps Engineer

HonorHealth; Arizona; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HonorHealth is seeking a Senior AI/ML DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and support scalable AI/ML solutions across the organization. The role focuses on productionizing models, building robust pipelines, and ensuring governance and security in healthcare data environments.

You will partner with data engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into reliable, joinable deployments, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement in AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or 4+ years of relevant experience.
• 7+ years in DevOps, AI/ML Ops, data engineering, or related software engineering roles.
• Experience deploying AI/ML production workloads.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native AI/ML services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and deployment of scalable AI/ML solutions in cloud environments.
• Develop end-to-end MLOps pipelines for data ingestion, training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Implement CI/CD, model versioning, automated testing, monitoring, and rollback strategies.
• Ensure governance, privacy, and security best practices, incl. HIPAA where applicable.
• Collaborate with data engineers, scientists, platform teams, and business stakeholders.

Skills

MLOps

DevOps

CI/CD

Git workflows

Containerization

APIs

SQL

Data engineering

Cloud computing

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science/Data Science/Engineering/AI/ML/Math/Stats

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Primary City/State

Virtual Arizona

Category

Data Intelligence

Shift

Day

Department

Augmented Intelligence

Hours: Monday-Friday Days

Location: Remote -- Must be located in Arizona -- Occasional on site as needed.

Great care starts with great people. (Like you.)

At HonorHealth, you'll find something special. From humble beginnings in 1927 to one of Arizona's largest nonprofit healthcare systems, our culture is built on warmth and neighborly kindness. Behind every smile is a highly skilled professional with deep expertise and an unwavering dedication to what matters most - caring for the health and well-being of people and communities across the greater Phoenix area.

Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior AI / ML DevOps Engineer designs, develops, deploys, and supports scalable machine learning solutions that enable advanced analytics and AI capabilities across HonorHealth. This role operationalizes models and pipelines, monitors performance, and partners with data, engineering, and stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions aligned to governance and data handling expectations. The role partners closely with data engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into production-ready deployments, monitor ongoing performance, and continuously improve AI/ML capabilities aligned to governance and operational standards.

Essential Functions

• Leads the design and implementation of the environment that deploys scalable AI/ML solutions, including predictive models, large language model use cases, and agentic workflows that support clinical, operational, and business objectives.
• Develops and maintains end-to-end machine learning and RAG pipelines supporting data ingestion, application feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Architects and supports production-grade DevOps practices, including CI/CD, model versioning, automated testing, monitoring, alerting, retraining, and rollback strategies.
• Deploys and manages AI/ML applications in cloud environments, ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, performant, and operationally supportable.
• Implements observability and performance evaluation practices to manage compute resource utilization, performance, and cost efficiency. Works with AI development team to a continuous improvement feedback loop.
• Ensures AI/ML and agentic solutions comply with data governance, privacy, security, and responsible AI expectations, including HIPAA-aligned practices where applicable.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation for architectures, models, workflows, operational procedures, assumptions, limitations, and support processes.
• Troubleshoots complex pipeline, infrastructure, model, and integration issues; implements fixes and drives continuous improvement in operational stability and delivery efficiency.
• Core Skills: Hands-on experience with cloud-native AI/ML services and infrastructure, preferably in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services for training, inference, orchestration, and scalable compute
• Proficiency info MLOps, DevOps, and software engineering practices such as CI/CD, Git-based workflows, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing
• Proficiency with establishing connections via API calls and MCP servers.
• Strong SQL and data engineering skills with experience in large-scale data processing, backend engineering, and integration across enterprise data platforms
• Experience with API development and systems integration to embed AI/ML capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose issues across data, models, infrastructure, and orchestration layers
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to document and explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field; or 4 years' relevant experience Required

Experience

• 7 years, of progressive experience in DevOps within a Cloud deployment in, AI/ML Ops, data engineering, or related software engineering roles, including at least 3 years deploying and operating AI/ML production workloads. Required

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