Remote AI Platform Engineer — Cloud Infra & MLOps

Placements24; Paarl; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote work flexibility

Training resources and certifications

Home office stipend

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an accomplished AI Platform Engineer specializing in Cloud Infrastructure for a fully remote role. You will design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure that underpins our AI/ML initiatives.

Lead with expertise across AWS/Azure/GCP, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and security. Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers in a remote-first environment to deploy AI solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience as Cloud/DevOps/SRE with focus on AI/ML platforms.
• Proficiency with one major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP) and their AI/ML services.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of networking, security, and storage in cloud environments.
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Familiarity with MLOps principles and practices.
• Strong problem-solving and remote collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Develop and maintain IaC with Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for AI models and apps.
• Optimize cloud resource usage for cost and performance.
• Ensure security, availability, and performance of AI platforms.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to meet infra needs.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for AI infra.
• Automate operational tasks related to infrastructure management.
• Stay current with cloud AI tech and MLOps best practices.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues impacting AI development.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

CI/CD

Python scripting

MLOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an accomplished AI Platform Engineer specializing in Cloud Infrastructure for a fully remote role. You will design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure that underpins our AI/ML initiatives.

Lead with expertise across AWS/Azure/GCP, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and security. Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers in a remote-first environment to deploy AI solutions at scale.