AI Platform & MLOps Lead Engineer

Placements24; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Comprehensive medical aid

Performance bonuses

Company pension fund

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer with an MLOps focus to design, build, and scale the AI/ML platform in Randburg. You will own pipelines, monitoring, deployment automation, and collaboration with data science teams.

The ideal candidate brings 6+ years in software/DevOps with 3+ years in MLOps, strong scripting skills, and deep cloud/container experience. This role offers growth in a dynamic AI infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years in software engineering or DevOps, with at least 3 years in MLOps or AI platform engineering.
• Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines for ML models.
• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle and MLOps principles.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go scripting.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Excellent problem-solving and proactive infrastructure mindset.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of the AI/ML platform and MLOps infra.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for ML models with version control.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for ML models in production.
• Automate model training, evaluation, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers to meet infra needs.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of the AI platform.
• Manage cloud infra related to ML workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Develop and enforce MLOps and AI system management best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve ML platform issues.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Bash

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer with an MLOps focus to design, build, and scale the AI/ML platform in Randburg. You will own pipelines, monitoring, deployment automation, and collaboration with data science teams.

The ideal candidate brings 6+ years in software/DevOps with 3+ years in MLOps, strong scripting skills, and deep cloud/container experience. This role offers growth in a dynamic AI infrastructure environment.