Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer - Remote & Scalable ML Ops

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote work flexibility

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Stipend for home office setup

Professional development opportunities

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Placements24 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale AI infrastructure. This is a fully remote role that enables you to collaborate with distributed teams from anywhere.

You will work on cloud AI workloads, ML pipelines, and containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes. Proficiency in Python, Go or Java, and infrastructure as code is required; you will contribute to scalable platform design, observability, security, and rapid

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable infrastructure.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and related services.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of MLOps, CI/CD for ML models, and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote team environment.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable AI/ML infrastructure.
• Manage cloud-based infrastructure for AI workloads, optimizing cost and performance.
• Build and automate CI/CD pipelines for ML models.
• Implement and manage containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Collaborate with AI/ML researchers to meet infrastructure needs.
• Develop tools to improve AI development lifecycle efficiency.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot to ensure high availability.
• Contribute to architectural design of the AI platform and roadmap.
• Ensure security best practices across the infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

MLOps

Distributed systems

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Placements24 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale AI infrastructure. This is a fully remote role that enables you to collaborate with distributed teams from anywhere.

You will work on cloud AI workloads, ML pipelines, and containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes. Proficiency in Python, Go or Java, and infrastructure as code is required; you will contribute to scalable platform design, observability, security, and rapid