Fully Remote AI Platform Engineer - Cloud & MLOps

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Remote AI Platform Engineer to design, build and scale AI infrastructure. You will work in a remote-first environment, enabling AI researchers and data scientists to train and deploy models efficiently from anywhere in South Africa.

You will implement MLOps pipelines, manage cloud-based AI workloads with Docker/Kubernetes, and automate provisioning with Terraform or Ansible while ensuring security and cost effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE for AI/ML infra.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and manage scalable AI infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Develop and implement MLOps pipelines for model training, deployment and monitoring.
• Use Docker and Kubernetes to orchestrate AI workloads.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with IaC tools (Terraform/Ansible).
• Ensure performance, security and cost-effectiveness of the AI platform.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to support infra needs.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues impacting AI development and production.
• Stay updated with cloud AI infrastructure trends and best practices.

Skills

Cloud platforms

MLOps

Python

DevOps/SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Remote AI Platform Engineer to design, build and scale AI infrastructure. You will work in a remote-first environment, enabling AI researchers and data scientists to train and deploy models efficiently from anywhere in South Africa.

You will implement MLOps pipelines, manage cloud-based AI workloads with Docker/Kubernetes, and automate provisioning with Terraform or Ansible while ensuring security and cost effectiveness.