Staff MLOps Engineer - AI Cloud Platform Lead

Enboarder; Boca Raton (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Life and disability benefits

Tuition reimbursement

LinkedIn Learning access

Dog-friendly HQ (US)

Job summary

ModMed in Boca Raton is seeking a Staff MLOps Engineer to bridge data science and production systems. You will steer architecture and tooling for fast, reliable AI-enabled applications at scale, driving model training, deployment, and lifecycle practices across product teams.

You will lead standardization of IaC, CI/CD, and observability, while mentoring teams and ensuring secure, cost-efficient operations in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, MLOps, Software Engineering, or Cloud Architecture delivering AI/ML systems.
• Strong Python and software engineering practices for production-grade microservices and data pipelines.
• Proven architectural experience across ML lifecycle: training, inference, model registration, and app integration.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes/EKS, AWS Lambda, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on with MLflow, SageMaker, PyTorch, Spark; Databricks a plus.
• Terraform and CI/CD/GitOps tooling; established observability standards.
• Leadership and collaboration across teams to enable developers and secure deployments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate a scalable developer enablement platform for AI/ML models in production.
• Define patterns for training, feature stores, batch/real-time inference, and orchestration.
• Ensure IaC-driven, multi-environment deployments across AWS accounts.
• Lead evolution to serverless and containerized ML execution with Kubernetes.
• Drive CI/CD and GitOps for automated model delivery and infrastructure automation.
• Design observability with DataDog to monitor drift, latency, and health.
• Implement LLMOps and AIOps frameworks to manage LLMs and generative AI workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Security to ensure secure, cost-efficient deployments.
• Provide technical leadership and codify best practices in system architecture.

Skills

Python

Microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

Lambda

CI/CD

MLflow

SageMaker

PyTorch

Databricks

Terraform

DataDog

LLMOps

AIOps

Leadership

Tools

Databricks

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

DataDog

Job description

ModMed in Boca Raton is seeking a Staff MLOps Engineer to bridge data science and production systems. You will steer architecture and tooling for fast, reliable AI-enabled applications at scale, driving model training, deployment, and lifecycle practices across product teams.

You will lead standardization of IaC, CI/CD, and observability, while mentoring teams and ensuring secure, cost-efficient operations in a hybrid environment.