Senior MLOps Engineer - Azure Platform & Cost Steward

Jobot; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work US-based

Equity options

Health insurance

Disability coverage

Holidays (11)

Flexible PTO

401k 4% match

Home office stipend

Wellness stipend

Competitive pay & bonus

Job summary

Jobot is hiring a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own the Azure-based platform, deployment, and cost discipline across AKS, networking, identity, and observability. You will work in a production role with governance and audit requirements for government-facing SaaS.

You will collaborate with the AI Operations team to deploy, run, and scale the platform, ensuring least privilege access, reproducible environments, and robust security posturing while delivering reliable, cost-aware services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE in SaaS environments.
• Deep Azure experience: AKS, networking, identity (Entra), monitoring; production Kubernetes.
• IaC default (Terraform, Bicep, or similar) with strong scripting and automation.
• MLOps experience: deploying and operating ML/LLM systems in production.
• Demonstrated cost work: ability to point to cloud spend found, explained, and reduced.
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, SOC 2 or similar).
• Comfortable holding production access with discipline.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate our Azure platform: AKS, networking, identity, storage, environments from development to production.
• Own infrastructure as code end to end; environments reproducible and drift detected.
• Operate the AI infrastructure layer: self-hosted observability and evaluation tooling, model gateway, routing.
• Own cloud and AI cost: metering, budgets, unit economics, and remediation.
• Harden production access and controls: least privilege, secrets management, audit trails.
• Partner with AI Operations on deploy-and-release paths and progressive rollout.
• Build platform reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning.
• Provide platform primitives for microservices: service infrastructure and environment boundaries.

Skills

DevOps / platform engineering / SRE

Azure / AKS / Entra / monitoring

Infrastructure as code (Terraform / Bì

Job description

Jobot is hiring a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own the Azure-based platform, deployment, and cost discipline across AKS, networking, identity, and observability. You will work in a production role with governance and audit requirements for government-facing SaaS.

You will collaborate with the AI Operations team to deploy, run, and scale the platform, ensuring least privilege access, reproducible environments, and robust security posturing while delivering reliable, cost-aware services.