MLOps Engineer
Talascend is currently seeking an MLOps Engineer for a contract opportunity with our client in Houston, Texas.
Overview
We are seeking an MLOps Engineer to design, deploy, monitor, and maintain machine learning solutions in production across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Snowflake environments. This role will partner with data scientists and cloud teams to operationalize ML models, automate pipelines, and build reliable, secure, and scalable ML platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring
- Deploy and manage ML models in production across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake-based ecosystems
- Build batch and real-time inference pipelines using cloud-native and platform-native services
- Automate model packaging, testing, release, and rollback using CI/CD best practices
- Integrate ML workflows with services such as AWS SageMaker, AWS Lambda, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory, and Snowflake
- Build and maintain orchestration workflows using tools such as Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or similar platforms
- Implement experiment tracking, model registry, and model governance processes
- Monitor model accuracy, drift, latency, throughput, pipeline failures, and infrastructure usage
- Establish deployment strategies such as canary, shadow, blue-green, and rollback mechanisms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to move models from research to production
- Ensure security, compliance, traceability, and access control for models and data across cloud environments
- Optimize platform performance, reliability, and cost across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake
- Document architecture, deployment standards, and operational procedures
Qualifications
- Master’s or advanced degree (PhD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
- Five or more years of relevant experiences
- Proven experience in MLOps, ML engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Snowflake
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience deploying and managing ML models in production
- Experience with cloud ML services such as AWS SageMaker and Azure Machine Learning
- Experience building data pipelines and integrating with Snowflake
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and model versioning
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or similar
- Familiarity with model monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability
- Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, APIs, and distributed processing
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.