SAIC
AI

SRE MLOps Engineer

SAIC · Virginia, United States · $120k - $160k

Actively hiring Posted 3 months ago

Role overview

Job ID 2511322

What you'll work on

  • Enable secure, scalable, and repeatable deployment workflows for both ML models and supporting infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain runtime environments, service accounts, orchestration logic for Databricks, MLflow, and AWS AI services.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, or equivalent) for code, data, and model deployments.
  • Apply DevSecOps practices — integrating security scans, compliance checks, and audit logging into deployment pipelines.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure DSO and Solutions Architect to integrate Terraform-based IaC for consistent, automated provisioning.
  • Implement observability, alerting, and logging (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus) to monitor both application and ML workloads.
  • Align infrastructure with ML lifecycle needs — including staging, promotion, rollback, retraining, and compliance-aware tracking.
  • Develop automation templates, reusable workflows, and guardrails to accelerate onboarding of mission team models while ensuring security.
  • Contribute to incident response, performance tuning, and reliability engineering across ML and non-ML workloads.

What we're looking for

  • Active IRS clearance highly desired.
  • Experience in federal or regulated environments with security, audit, and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
  • Knowledge of Trustworthy AI monitoring (bias detection, drift monitoring, explainability).
  • Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and data pipeline orchestration in Databricks.
  • Hands-on experience with Zero Trust security models and secure boundary implementations.
  • Relevant certifications such as

  • Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional.

  • AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional.

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

  • Security+ or equivalent security cert.

Target salary range $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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Fulltime Remote Ai Machine Learning Mlops Data Engineer