AI Platform Engineer – MLOps & Scalable AI Infra

Placements24; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement contributions

Training opportunities

Certifications

Industry events attendance

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an AI Platform Engineer with a strong MLOps focus in Polokwane to design and maintain scalable AI infrastructure. You will automate ML pipelines, enable reliable model deployment, and collaborate with data scientists to optimize production workloads.

The role emphasizes containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), and IaC for scalable ML platforms. Join a dynamic team driving cutting-edge AI initiatives in Polokwane.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as Software/DevOps/ML Engineer with MLOps focus.
• Strong ML lifecycle understanding and Python proficiency.
• Experience with containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) for ML services.
• Familiarity with MLOps tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, TFX.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
• IaC principles/tools: Terraform, CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI/ML infrastructure and platforms.
• Implement and manage MLOps pipelines for training, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Develop and manage CI/CD processes for ML models.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of AI production systems.
• Work with cloud services to provision and manage AI infrastructure resources.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for ML models and infra.
• Automate data preparation, model versioning, and experiment tracking.
• Collaborate with data scientists to troubleshoot production issues.
• Contribute to standardization of ML tooling and best practices.

Skills

Python

DevOps

MLOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

MLflow

Kubeflow

Terraform

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an AI Platform Engineer with a strong MLOps focus in Polokwane to design and maintain scalable AI infrastructure. You will automate ML pipelines, enable reliable model deployment, and collaborate with data scientists to optimize production workloads.

The role emphasizes containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), and IaC for scalable ML platforms. Join a dynamic team driving cutting-edge AI initiatives in Polokwane.