Lead AI Platform & LLMOps Engineer

MoMo from MTN

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

MTN Group Fintech is building a world-class AI capability to power next-gen financial services across multiple markets. The AI Platform & LLMOps Expert role is hands-on, owning the deployment pipelines, evaluation harness, observability stack and day-to-day production operations of AI models and agents.

You will lead the full-stack platform and APIs that enable user-facing AI capabilities, in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT or related technical field.
8–10 years in software/platform/cloud/SRE with 2–3 years leading engineers.
Hands-on experience building and operating production platforms with CI/CD, environments and observability.
Experience operating ML workloads in production, including evaluation, monitoring and cost control.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, infrastructure as code and secrets management.
Experience holding production accountability, including on‑call and incident leadership.
Experience delivering user-facing applications and APIs alongside platform work.
Exposure to regulated environments with change control and audit expectations.

Responsibilities

Own AI platform environments, deployment pipelines and release mechanics.
Manage model operations: provisioning, routing, versioning, fallbacks and costs.
Maintain evaluation harness, regression suites and quality gates for pre-release.
Oversee observability, monitoring, alerting and incident response for AI systems.
Develop full-stack applications and APIs that consume AI capabilities.