Senior MLOps Platform Engineer (Flexible Work)

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Professional development

Flexible working

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI/ML Platform Engineer to join their Bloemfontein team. The role focuses on building, maintaining, and scaling the MLOps platform that enables data scientists and engineers to efficiently develop, train, deploy, and monitor ML models.

You will work with cloud technologies and big data tools to create a robust AI development environment, collaborating with a growth‑oriented team. A strong software engineering and DevOps background is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of software engineering or DevOps with scalable platform experience.
• Proven experience with MLOps tools and frameworks (Kubeflow, MLflow, TFX, SageMaker Pipelines, Azure ML Pipelines).
• Strong containerization knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficient in Python and Bash, with CI/CD expertise (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Familiarity with data storage/processing (SQL, NoSQL, Spark) and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the MLOps platform infrastructure for end-to-end ML lifecycle.
• Automate data pipelines, model training, deployment, and monitoring workflows.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and optimize platform performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to meet platform needs.
• Manage cloud resources (AWS, Azure, GCP) for ML workloads and security controls.
• Ensure model versioning, experiment tracking, and compliance practices.

Skills

Python

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kubeflow

MLflow

TFX

SageMaker Pipelines

Azure ML Pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Spark

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI/ML Platform Engineer to join their Bloemfontein team. The role focuses on building, maintaining, and scaling the MLOps platform that enables data scientists and engineers to efficiently develop, train, deploy, and monitor ML models.

You will work with cloud technologies and big data tools to create a robust AI development environment, collaborating with a growth‑oriented team. A strong software engineering and DevOps background is essential.