Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOPS)

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company’s Technology organization is undergoing a digital transformation to empower employees with world-class technology. This role focuses on leveraging data to drive decision-making and build scalable ML solutions within a supportive, innovative environment.

You will deploy models, automate pipelines, and mentor junior MLOps engineers while collaborating across teams to ensure data quality and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in MLOps, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing and scaling high-performing MLOps or data platform teams, with focus on career development and mentorship.
• Cloud ML Platforms: hands-on with Azure ML and Microsoft Fabric preferred; AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, or similar platforms acceptable.
• Programming: strong proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and model deployment.
• DevOps & Containerization: Git, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), Docker, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Model Deployment & Operationalization: transition models from experimentation to production in Docker containers.
• Pipeline Automation: build/maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML workflows using GitHub Actions; manage container images in Azure Container Registry; deploy to AKS/ACS.
• Utilize Azure ML and Microsoft Fabric Data Science to manage ML lifecycle; adapt to other cloud platforms as needed.
• Monitoring & Maintenance: implement monitoring for model performance, data drift, and system health in production.
• Data Integration: collaborate with data engineering to feed clean data into models.
• Engineering Best Practices: write clean, modular Python code with Git version control.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Azure ML

GitHub Actions

Azure Container Registry

Azure DevOps

Monitoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure ML

AKS

GitHub Actions

Azure Container Registry

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company’s Technology organization is in the midst of a digital transformation that allows our employees to use world class technology to connect our products to our customers all over the world. This journey is a very exciting time for Coca‑Cola and our employees are big contributors to our Success and Growth. Our large scale and complex environment offers an incredible opportunity to address challenges, enable innovative solutions to make a difference for our customers.

In this position, you will embark on a journey of leveraging vast amounts of data to transform it into actionable insights. You will aid in the development of analytics models and work under the guidance of seasoned data science professionals to drive decision‑making and strategy across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to grow in your career in data science and analytics within a supportive and innovative environment.

What You’ll Do For Us

• Model Deployment & Operationalization: Partner with data science teams to transition machine learning models from experimentation to production environments, packaging models into robust Docker containers for scalable and reproducible deployments.
• Pipeline Automation: Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for machine learning workflows (e.g., model training, evaluation, and deployment) utilizing tools like GitHub Actions. Leverage Azure Container Registry to securely manage container images and deploy scalable workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances (ACS).
• Utilize Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Fabric Data Science to manage the ML lifecycle. Adapt prior experience from other cloud platforms to effectively navigate and optimize our current stack.
• Monitoring & Maintenance: Implement monitoring solutions to track model performance, data drift, and system health in production. Ensure comprehensive logging and observability for containerized model endpoints running on Kubernetes clusters. Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues as they arise.
• Data Integration: Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure clean, reliable data pipelines (such as Medallion architectures) seamlessly feed into machine learning models.
• Engineering Best Practices: Write clean, modular, and testable code (primarily in Python) while adhering to version control best practices using Git.
• Mentor, guide, and develop junior/aspiring MLOps Engineer across the organization.
• Lead continuous career development and drive engineering excellence through performance reviews.

Qualifications& Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience (or equivalent strong academic/internship experience) in MLOps, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing and scaling high-performing MLOps or data platform teams, with a focus on career development, performance management, and technical mentorship.
• Cloud ML Platforms: Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud ML platform. While Azure ML and Microsoft Fabric are preferred, experience with AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, or similar platforms is highly acceptable.
• Programming: Strong proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and model deployment.
• DevOps & Containerization: Familiarity with version control (Git), building CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), and containerization ecosystems (Docker, Azure Container Registry, Kubernetes/AKS/ACS).
• Foundational Knowledge: A solid understanding of the machine learning lifecycle, containerized microservices architectures, and fundamental software engineering principles.

Practical experience with as many of the following as possible:

• Handles multiple competing priorities in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment
• Strong attention to details and excellent problem‑solving skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Highly innovative, adaptable, and self‑directed
• Results‑oriented with a delivery focus
• Presentation skills: Ability to communicate technical topics to business audience.
• Be able to collaborate across other levels of the organization
• Team player who can lead a discussion to defined outcomes
• Effective Communication
• Pursuing Innovation

What We Can Do for You:

• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award‑winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques.
• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate and innovate.

Our Purpose And Growth Culture

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca‑Cola.

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