Senior Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer in Cincinnati

Energy Jobline ZR; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer for a 1+ year contract in downtown Cincinnati. The role focuses on building scalable ML platforms and production ML systems, with onsite presence four days a week.

The candidate will design CI/CD pipelines for ML workloads, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and implement governance, monitoring, and retraining strategies to ensure secure, compliant deployments in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in ML/MLops/Data Eng or SW Eng.
• 3+ years building production ML systems.
• Experience end-to-end ML lifecycle management.
• Experience operating ML workloads in cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with batch and real-time ML solutions.
• Experience with large-scale structured/unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and manage production-grade ML solutions.
• Build scalable ML platforms supporting model development, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Implement model versioning, experimentation tracking, governance, and reproducibility.
• Develop frameworks for both batch and real-time inference workloads.
• Optimize ML systems for performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

Skills

Python

SQL

CI/CD for ML

MLOps

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job Description

Senior Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer - 1+ Year Contract thru Dec 31, 2027

Onsite 4 days a week in Downtown, Cincinnati Ohio 45202

Pay Rate: $70/hr - $80/hr W-2

CBTS is searching for a Senior Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable machine learning platforms and production ML systems. This role will focus on enabling end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management, including feature engineering, model development, deployment automation, monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operationalizing machine learning solutions in cloud environments, developing CI/CD pipelines for ML workloads, and collaborating with data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and business stakeholders. Experience working in highly regulated industries such as financial services, banking, healthcare, insurance, or telecommunications is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

ML Platform Engineering & Model Operations

• Design, develop, deploy, and manage production-grade machine learning solutions.
• Build scalable and reusable machine learning platforms that support model development, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Implement best practices for model versioning, experimentation tracking, governance, and reproducibility.
• Develop frameworks to support both batch and real-time inference workloads.
• Optimize machine learning systems for performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.

MLOps Pipeline Development

• Design and maintain automated CI/CD/CT (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Training) pipelines for machine learning workflows.
• Automate model testing, validation, deployment, rollback, and retraining processes.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code practices and automated environment provisioning.
• Build operational tooling to support model lifecycle management across development, testing, and production environments.

Feature Store & Data Engineering Integration

• Design and support enterprise feature stores to improve feature reuse, consistency, and model governance.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to integrate machine learning solutions with data warehouses, data lakes, and operational data sources.
• Develop scalable data pipelines supporting both training and inference workloads.
• Optimize data availability, quality, lineage, and observability.

Production Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement model monitoring frameworks covering:
• Model performance
• Data quality
• Data drift
• Concept drift
• Feature drift
• System health and reliability
• Establish alerting, observability, and incident management processes.
• Develop strategies for model retraining and continuous performance improvement.

Real-Time Machine Learning Systems

• Build and support low-latency scoring and prediction platforms.
• Develop event-driven machine learning architectures using streaming technologies.
• Partner with business and engineering teams to enable near real-time decisioning capabilities.

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Implement MLOps governance standards and controls.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Support model auditability, explainability, lineage tracking, and documentation.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams to maintain operational standards.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Collaborate closely with data scientists, analytics teams, product owners, and software engineers.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to MLOps standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Drive adoption of modern machine learning engineering methodologies across the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, MLOps, Data Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience building and supporting production machine learning systems.
• Demonstrated experience implementing end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management.
• Experience operating ML workloads in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience supporting both batch and real-time machine learning solutions.
• Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured data.

Machine Learning & MLOps

• ML lifecycle management
• Model deployment and orchestration
• Experiment tracking and model versioning
• Model monitoring and observability
• Feature Store architecture
• Model Registry implementation
• Automated retraining workflows
• Responsible AI and model governance practices

Cloud Platforms Experience with one or more:

• AWS SageMaker
• Azure Machine Learning
• Google Vertex AI

Programming Proficiency in:

• Python (required)
• SQL (required)
• Java, Scala, or R ()

Data Platforms Experience with:

• Snowflake
• Databricks
• IBM DB2 or equivalent enterprise RDBMS platforms
• Data lakes and modern cloud storage platforms

Data Transformation Experience with:

• dbt
• Spark
• Pandas
• PySpark

DevOps & Infrastructure Experience with:

• Git/GitHub/GitLab
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent CI/CD tools
• Terraform or infrastructure-as-code frameworks
• Linux administration
• Shell scripting

Containers & Orchestration - Experience with:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift ()

Streaming & Real-Time Technologies - Experience with:

• Apache Kafka
• Event-driven architectures
• Real-time inference pipelines

Monitoring & Observability - Experience with:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Cloud- monitoring solutions

Qualifications

• Experience implementing enterprise Feature Stores.
• Experience designing Model Registry and ML Governance frameworks.
• Experience building real-time decision-making or scoring platforms.
• Experience supporting credit risk, fraud, customer analytics, recommendation systems, or predictive analytics use cases.
• Experience with MLFlow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Argo Workflows, Feast, SageMaker Pipelines, or similar MLOps platforms.
• Knowledge of software architecture patterns and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AI/ML regulatory frameworks and model risk management practices.
• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) .

Desired Outcomes - The engineer will help establish and mature enterprise MLOps capabilities, including:

• Feature Store implementation and adoption.
• Model Registry and governance processes.
• Automated CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Real-time model deployment and scoring.
• Enterprise machine learning monitoring and observability.
• Reusable machine learning platform services that accelerate model development and deployment across data science teams.