Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Machine Learning Operations Engineer (Rate:$60 ) Location: Newark NJ We are seeking a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer to join our team. The MLOps Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that enables reliable deployment, monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement of production machine learning systems across enterprise client environments. What You'll Do: Design, build, and maintain scalable machine learning deployment pipelines. Develop standardized model registries, artifact repositories, data versioning, and reproducible ML environments. Build automated evaluation pipelines for production machine learning models. Implement automated data quality monitoring including profiling, anomaly detection, validation, quarantine, and alerting. Develop automated retraining workflows, promotion gates, rollback capabilities, and audit trails. Monitor production environments for model drift, latency, prediction quality, infrastructure performance, and operational costs. Troubleshoot production machine learning issues and lead incident response activities. Build CI/CD pipelines supporting enterprise AI applications. Collaborate closely with Data Scientists and client engineering teams to deploy and maintain AI solutions. Ensure governance, security, lineage, reproducibility, and audit readiness across machine learning platforms. Who You Are: 8+ years - Passionate about building reliable AI infrastructure at enterprise scale. Experienced deploying and maintaining production machine learning systems. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Fast learner with attention to detail. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working with both software engineering and data science teams. Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field. Related Work Experience: 3+ years supporting production machine learning platforms or cloud infrastructure. Technical Skills: Advanced SQL Python Apache Spark / PySpark AWS SageMaker (Databricks, Azure ML, or Vertex AI experience is a plus) Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) Model monitoring and ML observability tools Data validation and automated testing frameworks Statistics related to monitoring, model drift, and performance evaluation • • Git and modern DevOps practices