[Remote] Lead DevOps/AIOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blend360 is a data, AI, and marketing consulting firm that helps organizations use data, technology, and human expertise to address complex business challenges. The Lead DevOps/MLOps Engineer will architect, automate, and operationalize cloud-based data and AI platforms on Google Cloud Platform, while establishing DevOps, MLOps, observability, security, and deployment best practices. The role also partners with technical teams and clients, troubleshoots production issues, mentors engineers, and evaluates emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native DevOps and MLOps architectures on GCP
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for data, ML, and application workloads
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform and establish repeatable deployment patterns
- Architect and operationalize data platforms leveraging BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, and Cloud Composer
- Build MLOps capabilities supporting the full ML lifecycle, including model development, deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retraining
- Establish observability across data and ML platforms, including logging, monitoring, alerting, pipeline health, data quality, and model performance
- Implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using GCP IAM, networking, secrets management, and appropriate security controls
- Partner with Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Architects, and client stakeholders to translate business requirements into production-ready technical solutions
- Establish engineering standards around deployment automation, testing, environment management, reliability, and operational excellence
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Mentor engineers and serve as a technical leader across DevOps, cloud, data, and MLOps initiatives
- Evaluate emerging GCP and AI technologies and determine where they can create meaningful business or engineering value
Skills
- • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, MLOps, or a related discipline
- • Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly BigQuery and cloud-native data services
- • Experience designing and implementing end-to-end data platforms on GCP
- • Strong understanding of BigQuery architecture, performance optimization, data ingestion, partitioning, clustering, and data security
- • Experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing, containerization, and Kubernetes/GKE
- • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience, preferably Terraform
- • Experience with Vertex AI and/or production ML platforms, including model deployment and monitoring
- • Experience with orchestration and data processing technologies such as Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataflow, Dataproc/Spark, and Pub/Sub
- • Strong understanding of observability, reliability engineering, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- • Proficiency with scripting/programming languages such as Python and/or Bash
- • Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, secrets management, and enterprise governance
- • Ability to operate at both the architectural and hands-on engineering levels
- • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical teams and senior client stakeholders
- • Experience with Vertex AI, MLflow, Kubeflow, or other MLOps platforms
- • Experience implementing GenAI/LLM solutions in production
- • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/GKE in enterprise environments
- • Familiarity with data quality, data lineage, metadata management, and semantic data layers
- • Experience with multiple cloud platforms, particularly AWS or Azure
- • Experience working in a consulting or professional services environment
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