MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)

Job Title: MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)
Location: Plano TX Onsite
Duration: 12-month contract with possible extension
 
Interview Process:

• 1st RoundMS Teams Technical Interview – SageMaker and AWS
• 2nd RoundMS Teams Technical Interview – SageMaker and AWS

 
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 Classic 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
• MLflow or equivalent experiment tracking
• SageMaker Pipelines or similar workflow orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions)
• Unified Studio is preferred to have but Classic is must have.

 
What we’re looking for
Enterprise Platforms team is looking for a Senior ML Platform Engineer to design, build, and operationalize an enterprise ML platform on AWS SageMaker Unified Studio. You will migrate the organization from a fragmented ML toolchain to a unified, governed platform on AWS Landing Zone 2, covering the full ML lifecycle from data discovery through model deployment and monitoring.
 
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) – Highlight Top 3-5 skills

• 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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