Remote Lead AI Engineer — MLOps & Cloud Pipelines

Placements24; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Flexible hours

Pro development budget

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Engineer (MLOps) to design, build and maintain infrastructure for deploying and monitoring ML models in a remote-first setup. You will lead CI/CD for ML, manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with data scientists.

The role emphasizes reliability, security and performance of AI production systems, with a strong focus on IaC automation and staying ahead of MLOps advancements.

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 6+ years in software engineering, DevOps or SRE with a focus on MLOps.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for ML models.
• Cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP and ML services expertise.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes and IaC tools.
• Strong Python programming with ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience with Terraform/Ansible and distributed systems.
• Ability to lead initiatives and mentor engineers in a remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of robust MLOps pipelines for model training, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Develop scalable cloud infrastructure for ML workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Implement CI/CD practices tailored for ML projects.
• Build tools to streamline the ML lifecycle end-to-end.
• Collaborate with data scientists to optimize production models.
• Ensure reliability, scalability and security of AI production systems.
• Automate IaC provisioning and management.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks and optimize systems.
• Troubleshoot complex production AI issues.
• Stay current with MLOps and cloud tech best practices.

Skills

Python

MLOps

CI/CD for ML

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Master's or Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Engineer (MLOps) to design, build and maintain infrastructure for deploying and monitoring ML models in a remote-first setup. You will lead CI/CD for ML, manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with data scientists.

The role emphasizes reliability, security and performance of AI production systems, with a strong focus on IaC automation and staying ahead of MLOps advancements.