Summary: The Senior AI/MLOps Engineer will be responsible for leading the design and development of scalable machine learning infrastructure and production-ready AI systems. This role involves optimizing MLOps pipelines, deploying ML models, and collaborating with data scientists to ensure effective model production. The position is remote and requires strong technical leadership and communication skills. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud environments and MLOps tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and optimisation of end-to-end MLOps pipelines across cloud environments (ideally AWS)
- Drive deployment, monitoring, and scaling of ML models using Docker and Kubernetes
- Build and maintain batch and real-time inference systems leveraging streaming tools (e.g. Kafka)
- Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to productionise models using MLflow, Airflow or Dagster
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and setting best practices
- Translate complex ML concepts into business value and influence stakeholders
- Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and scalability
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (cloud-native MLOps stack)
- Proven delivery of production ML systems end-to-end (build, deploy, monitor)
- Expertise with MLflow, Airflow or Dagster for pipeline orchestration
- Experience with Kafka / streaming architectures and data engineering
- Advanced Python and SQL
- Strong leadership and stakeholder communication skills
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: Spain
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Job Title: Senior AI/MLOps Engineer
Duration: 12 months
Workload: Full time hours
Setup: Freelance (Daily rate / Limited Company / Umbrella / Sole Trader)
Location: Remote from Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, or Spain
We are seeking a Senior AI/MLOps Engineer to lead the design and evolution of scalable ML infrastructure and production-ready AI systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and optimisation of end-to-end MLOps pipelines across cloud environments (ideally AWS)
- Drive deployment, monitoring, and scaling of ML models using Docker and Kubernetes
- Build and maintain batch and real-time inference systems leveraging streaming tools (e.g. Kafka)
- Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to productionise models using MLflow, Airflow or Dagster
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and setting best practices
- Translate complex ML concepts into business value and influence stakeholders
- Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and scalability
Must-Have Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (cloud-native MLOps stack)
- Proven delivery of production ML systems end-to-end (build, deploy, monitor)
- Expertise with MLflow, Airflow or Dagster for pipeline orchestration
- Experience with Kafka / streaming architectures and data engineering
- Advanced Python and SQL
- Strong leadership and stakeholder communication skills
Nice-to-Have:
- Exposure to GenAI / LLM / NLP use cases
- Experience with model explainability or regulated environments
- Demonstrated impact linking ML solutions to business KPIs (e.g. A/B testing)