Senior MLOps Engineer (Remote, Anywhere in Pakistan, USD Salary)

Requirements:

• Strong experience with Databricks (Workflows, MLflow, Delta Lake), Apache Spark (batch and streaming), and advanced Python (production-quality code).
• Hands-on experience with streaming and real-time data systems.
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle (training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining) and building scalable, distributed data and ML pipelines.
• Experience with Snowflake, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Experience with feature stores (e.g., Snowflake Feature Store, Databricks Feature Store) and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience with model serving frameworks, low-latency API development, and LLM deployment/serving.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., ELK stack or similar).
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of RBAC, security, and governance in data/ML platforms.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure preferred).

Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade ML pipelines on Databricks.
• Operationalize ML models, including deployment, monitoring, and full lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML workflows.
• Develop and manage real-time and streaming data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to efficiently productionize models.
• Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, and ensure reproducibility.
• Define and enforce ML best practices, governance, and quality standards.
• Monitor model performance and data drift, and implement automated retraining strategies.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of distributed workloads.
• Contribute to platform design for low-latency inference and scalable model serving.