ML Ops Platform Engineer

KMM Technologies•Reston, VA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Modeling Analytics & AI Engineering team is seeking an experienced MLOps Platform Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise-grade machine learning operations capabilities. This role will play a key part in enabling scalable, reliable, and secure ML model development and deployment across our cloud and container platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD automation, containerization, and ML platform operations. The ideal candidate will have solid engineering fundamentals combined with practical knowledge of ML workflows, deployment patterns, and platform reliability.

Requirements

3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and ECR.
Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS).
Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration concepts.
Strong programming/scripting experience in Python and Bash.
Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or equivalent).
Familiarity with machine learning workflows, including training, inference, and model monitoring.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
Experience supporting production platforms, including incident management and root cause analysis.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing Data Analytics Platforms / Tools (e.g., Domino, SageMaker)
Experience with ML lifecycle tools such as MLflow, or similar.
Experience supporting GPU-based workloads or distributed training environments.
Familiarity with enterprise MLOps architectures and patterns (batch, real-time, microservices).
Understanding of data processing frameworks and feature pipelines.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Effective communication and documentation abilities.
Ability to collaborate across engineering, analytics, and product teams.
Self-motivated with the ability to drive initiatives independently.
Ability to work in a complex, regulated enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

Engineer, manage, and support MLOps platform components across AWS and EKS-based environments.
Oversee deployment, configuration, and operation of infrastructure used for ML training, batch inference, and real-time model serving.
Ensure platform availability, resilience, and performance across dev, test, and production environments.
Implement role-based access controls (RBAC), network policies, and scalable namespace designs within EKS.
Build and support CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for model packaging, container image builds, vulnerability scanning, and automated deployment flows.
Enable standardized model release processes including environment promotion, versioning, and rollback workflows.
Integrate CI/CD with ML frameworks, model repositories, artifacts, and runtime environments.
Design and manage EKS workloads supporting containerized ML jobs and microservices.
Implement auto-scaling, resource quotas, cluster optimization, and multi-tenant workload isolation.
Support GPU and CPU-based training/inference workloads.
Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for ML pipelines, model endpoints, batch jobs, and platform components.
Analyze compute, storage, and data transfer usage to optimize cost efficiency across ML workloads.
Perform incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation planning.
Partner with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and application teams to operationalize end-to-end machine learning solutions.
Provide technical guidance on best practices for ML model lifecycle management, deployment patterns, and scalable architectures.
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, onboarding materials, and internal knowledge bases.