MLOps Engineer

Job Description

Cognism is actively seeking an outstanding MLOps Engineer to join our growing Data team. This role is primarily a hands-on engineering and MLOps position, with the individual reporting directly to the Engineering Manager in the Data team. The MLOps at Cognism is entrusted with optimizing and improving the quality of ML services and products. Advising and enforcing best practices within Data Science team, provide tooling and platforms that ultimately results in more reliable, maintainable, scalable and faster Machine Learning workflows. The successful candidate will be at the forefront of our MLOps initiatives, especially during the implementation of our machine learning platform and best practices.Key Responsibilities:Build and manage automation pipelines to operationalize the ML platform, model training and model deployment on AWSDesign and implement architectures, service and pipelines on the AWS cloud that are secure, reliable, scalable and maintainableOperate, maintain and evolve our traditional ML systems in production: gradient-boosted tree models, embedding-based matching, fine-tuned transformer classifiers, and classic NLP pipelines, running on our own serving and data infrastructure as well as some LLM based workflowsContributing to the MLOps best practices within the Science and Data teamActing as a bridge between AI, Engineering, and DevSecOps for ML deployment, monitoring, and maintenanceWork closely with Data Scientists to provide tooling and integration of ML models into larger systems and applicationsMonitor and maintain production critical ML services and workloads at scale Your Experience:Required:Strong understanding of AWS cloud architecture and servicesExperience deploying and monitoring classical ML models in production on AWSGood understanding of modern MLOps best practicesGood understanding of core Machine Learning fundamentals (classical model training, evaluation, feature engineering not just imited to LLMs)Experience serving models in production via a model-serving runtime (e.g. ONNX Runtime, NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, or similar)Experience with vector databases / approximate-nearest-neighbor search (e.g. Milvus, FAISS, pgvector, or similar)Good understanding of Data Engineering fundamentalsExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK or similar)Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Circle CI or similar)Basic understanding of networking and security practices on cloudExperience with containerization (Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, or similar)Proficiency reading and writing Python codeExperience with API deployment frameworks such as FastAPIFluent in English, good communication skills and ability to work in a teamEnthusiasm in learning and exploring the modern MLOps solutions Ideal:3+ years in a MLOps, Machine Learning Engineer or DevOps roleAbility to design and implement cloud solutions and ability to build MLOps pipelines in AWSGood understanding of software development principles, DevOps methodologiesExperience and understanding of MLOps concepts:Experiment TrackingModel Registry & VersioningModel & Data Drift MonitoringWorking with GPU based computational frameworks and architectures on cloud (AWS, GCP etc.)Knowledge of MLOps and DevOps tools:Kubeflow, Metaflow, Airflow or similarVisualisation tools – Grafana, QuickSight or similarMonitoring tools – Coralogix or GrafanaCloud or similarELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)ll,lExperience working in big data domains (10M+ scales)Experience with streaming and batch-processing frameworksBonus:Experience with MLOps Platforms (Nvidia Triton, SageMaker, VertexAI, Databricks, or other)Knowledge of frameworks such as scikit-learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.Experience with SQL, NoSQL databases, data lakehouse