Senior ML Engineer: Production ML & MLOps (Cape Town, Hybrid)

Acuity Consultants; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,350,000 - 1,450,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Consultants is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Cape Town to take models from experimentation to production. You will work across ML, software, and data engineering to deploy scalable, observable systems in a hybrid-capable environment.

The role emphasizes real-time pipelines, low latency design and secure, scalable cloud deployments across GCP/AWS/Azure. Salary ranges from R1.35m to R1.45m per year.

Qualifications

• This role requires productionising ML systems with real-world data pipelines.
• Strong Python, SQL and software engineering practices are essential.
• Experience building scalable, observable ML platforms in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production ML systems in real time with low latency.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to deploy reliable models at scale.
• Build and evolve the ML platform for observability and throughput.
• Embed CI/CD/CT and MLOps into the ML lifecycle.

Skills

Advanced Python

SQL proficiency

Production ML

Distributed systems

Kafka / Pub/Sub

Docker & Kubernetes

Terraform

MLOps pipelines

ML tooling (MLflow)

Cloud deployment (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kubeflow

Job description

Acuity Consultants is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Cape Town to take models from experimentation to production. You will work across ML, software, and data engineering to deploy scalable, observable systems in a hybrid-capable environment.

The role emphasizes real-time pipelines, low latency design and secure, scalable cloud deployments across GCP/AWS/Azure. Salary ranges from R1.35m to R1.45m per year.