MLOps Engineer with Google Cloud and Vertex AI (Must have Retail Industry Background)
6+ Months Contract
Remote Position
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
Minimum of 4 years of experience in MLOps, with a demonstrated ability to work with various ML platforms.
Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with data science methodologies.
Experience with cloud technologies, particularly Google Cloud and Vertex AI, and adaptability to technologies like Microsoft Azure or open-source tools.
Maintain expertise in a range of ML technologies and platforms, with a preference for Google Vertex AI, but open to other systems as needed.
Leverage support for open-source frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and integrate them with ML frameworks via custom containers.
Excellent communication skills, capable of bridging technical and business domains.
We are seeking a highly skilled MLOps Engineer to build, scale, and support our Google Vertex machine learning platform to enable a multi-model serving environment. This role is central to building reusable infrastructure components (i.e., infra as code), model deployment pipelines, and provide a collection of templates that accelerate model deployment, monitoring, and support for domain teams.
This contractor will collaborate closely with data scientists, other MLOps engineers, and product teams to ensure that models are deployed efficiently that are observable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals.
This work will empower domain teams to independently run, support, and monitor their models using platform-provided tools and best practices.
This role is part of a larger ML platform team that supports Kroger’s product recommendation capabilities.
This role will work alongside Data Scientist, Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and software engineers to build, test, maintain, and support data pipelines, ML Models, and back-end services that make up our product recommender platform.