MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)

Job Title: MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Plano, TX

Pay Rate: $90/hr - $102/hr on W2

What you’ll be doing

• Set up SageMaker Unified Studio platform — domain configuration, project provisioning, persona-based roles, and multi-environment (Dev, Prod-UAT, Prod) promotion workflows
• Build MLOps pipelines using SageMaker Pipelines — data extraction from Snowflake, preprocessing, training, evaluation, and model registration
• Manage SageMaker Model Registry — cross-account model promotion, versioning, immutability, and lineage tracking
• Configure MLflow experiment tracking — auto-logging of parameters, metrics, and artifacts
• Set up identity and access management — Okta SSO, SailPoint entitlements, persona-based execution roles, service roles for pipelines
• Build model serving — real-time SageMaker endpoints and batch prediction workflows
• Set up model monitoring — data drift, model drift, performance degradation detection
• Configure data catalog — searchable datasets, access-level visibility, access-request workflows, lineage
• Own platform operations — observability (CloudWatch, Datadog), logging, custom images, instance availability

Requirements

Qualifications / What you bring (Must Haves)

• 10-15 years of software engineering experience focused on cloud infrastructure or ML platform operations
• 5+ years hands‑on with AWS, including deep expertise in Amazon SageMaker (Studio, Pipelines, Model Registry, Endpoints, Feature Store)
• 3+ years building and operating production MLOps pipelines — training, versioning, deployment, monitoring, rollback
• Experience with SageMaker Unified Studio or Studio Classic — domain/project setup, blueprints, multi‑tenant configuration
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
• IAM design for ML platforms — execution roles, service roles, cross‑account access, Lake Formation, SSO/SAML
• MLflow or equivalent experiment tracking
• SageMaker Pipelines or similar workflow orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions)
• Model serving — real‑time endpoints, batch transform, auto‑scaling, endpoint monitoring
• Snowflake as a data source for ML pipelines
• Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration
• Networking and security — VPC, security groups, private endpoints, cross‑account connectivity

Added bonus if you have (Preferred)

• SageMaker Unified Studio domain provisioning, custom blueprints, project standardization
• SageMaker Feature Store for online/offline feature management
• SageMaker Model Monitor — data quality checks, bias detection, drift detection
• AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification

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Compensation

The pay offered to a successful candidate will be determined by various factors, including education, work experience, location, job responsibilities, certifications, and more. Additionally, IntelliPro provides a comprehensive benefits package, all subject to eligibility.