Your Job The GPU- MLOps Engineer will own the Azure platform layer end-to-end - deploying AI/ML models, provisioning and managing GPU compute, securing the environment, and continuously optimizing cost for our engineering AI/ML platform.
What You Will Do - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for training, validation, versioning, and deployment of ML models.
- Provision and scale Azure GPU compute (ND/NC series) and container infrastructure (AKS/ACI) for training and simulation workloads.
- Automate retraining/redeployment workflows in Azure ML pipelines as new data becomes available.
- Implement access control, identity management, and secrets management (Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault) across compute, data, and model artifacts.
- Monitor and optimize GPU/cloud spend (Azure Cost Management) and build cost visibility dashboards in Power BI.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) - 10+ years in MLOps, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure, with real exposure to both ML deployment and cloud infrastructure management.
- Strong Azure experience - GPU compute (ND/NC), Azure Kubernetes Service, containerization (Docker).
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or Bicep).
- Solid grasp of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, network security, secrets management).
- Demonstrated experience with cloud cost optimization (right-sizing, autoscaling, spot/preemptible strategies).
- Hands-on experience with model registries and experiment tracking (Azure ML + MLflow).
What Will Put You Ahead - Experience with GPU-heavy workloads specifically (ML training, HPC simulation) rather than general web/app infrastructure.
- Azure certifications (Solutions Architect Expert, Security Engineer Associate).
- Experience with HPC job schedulers (Slurm via Azure CycleCloud).
- Experience supporting engineering simulation tools.
For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $280,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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