Senior MLOps Engineer — AWS ML Pipelines & Production

Ignite IT; Suitland (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Referral program

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ignite IT Hub seeks a senior MLOps Engineer to ensure reliable operation and controlled improvement of the Census Bureau’s AWS-based LLM Autocoder. You will maintain data pipelines, automate tests and releases, and resolve production issues with AI/ML teams and government staff.

Responsibilities include CI/CD workflows, reproducibility of models and prompts, and monitoring system health, latency, and resource usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, information technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years in DevOps, cloud, software, or data engineering; 3+ years operating ML systems or automated data-processing platforms.
• Strong AWS and Linux experience, with Python or shell scripting and knowledge of cloud identity, access controls, storage, and monitoring.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, environment configuration, dependency management, and reliable deployment and rollback practices.
• Experience with ML artifact versioning or experiment tracking, production troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration with Government staff.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve software and data pipelines and CI/CD workflows using Government-approved tools.
• Version and trace code, model identifiers, prompts, configurations, data dependencies, and evaluation artifacts for reproducibility.
• Automate build, test, packaging, and deployment steps; integrate required validation evidence and approval checkpoints.
• Monitor processing health, latency, throughput, and resource use; connect model performance with team-defined metrics.
• Diagnose production incidents, document workarounds and root causes, and verify recovery with AI/ML engineers and Government staff.
• Prepare release and rollback procedures, integrate Government-approved changes, and verify behavior after deployment.
• Apply access, secrets, logging, and sensitive-data controls; maintain runbooks and configuration records for cross-training.
• Ensure cross-team coordination and compliance with Census security and privacy requirements.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Coordinate with Gov teams

ML workflow understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT or equivalent

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

AWS

Terraform

Linux

Python

Job description

Ignite IT Hub seeks a senior MLOps Engineer to ensure reliable operation and controlled improvement of the Census Bureau’s AWS-based LLM Autocoder. You will maintain data pipelines, automate tests and releases, and resolve production issues with AI/ML teams and government staff.

Responsibilities include CI/CD workflows, reproducibility of models and prompts, and monitoring system health, latency, and resource usage.