Senior Data Engineer - ML Ops & Cloud Pipelines

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced ML Ops Engineer to lead the strategy and implementation of scalable ML platforms in a cloud environment. The role focuses on automation, versioning, testing, and secure data handling across ingestion and inference pipelines.

Ideal candidates bring deep expertise in Spark, Python, ML tooling, and cloud platforms, with a track record of delivering reliable ML deployments and cost-optimized architectures.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in relevant field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong Scala and Python background.
• Experience with Apache Spark and/or Ray.
• Knowledge of AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud platform.
• Knowledge of ML Ops principles and frameworks.
• Experience with ML Ops technologies such as ML Flow, DVC, Grafana, DataHub, Databricks.
• Experience with machine learning technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, AWS Sagemaker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins or Git Actions.
• Experience with Docker containerization or Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experience in improving data security and privacy, and managing and reducing cloud costs.
• Knowledge of API development and machine learning deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a strategy for continuous improvement of our Machine Learning Ops including versioning, testing, automation, reproducibility, deployment, monitoring, and data privacy.
• Develop and report on ML Ops metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, and change failure rate.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, API engineers, and the dev ops team.
• Build scalable data ingestion and machine learning inference pipelines.
• Scale up production systems to handle increased demand from new products, features, and users.
• Provide visibility into the health of our data platform (data flow, resources usage, data lineage) and optimize cloud costs.
• Automate and handle the life-cycle of the systems and platforms that process our data.

Skills

Scala

Python

Apache Spark

Ray

Cloud platforms

ML Ops concepts

MLFlow

DVC

Grafana

DataHub

Databricks

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Sagemaker

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

API development

Security & privacy

Cloud cost optimization

Education

Masters in CS/SE/Data engineering

5+ years relevant experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced ML Ops Engineer to lead the strategy and implementation of scalable ML platforms in a cloud environment. The role focuses on automation, versioning, testing, and secure data handling across ingestion and inference pipelines.

Ideal candidates bring deep expertise in Spark, Python, ML tooling, and cloud platforms, with a track record of delivering reliable ML deployments and cost-optimized architectures.