MLOps Engineer (Remote Options) United States - Nationwide 42682BR **Why Trinnex?:** If you are passionate about water and technology, Trinnex is the place for you! Trinnex is a visionary company that is transforming the way water resources are managed and protected. By combining cutting-edge digital technologies, such as sensor/IoT data, models, geospatial data, and AI/machine learning, we create innovative, smart, and scalable solutions that make a difference. Whether it's optimizing water supply and demand, detecting leaks and anomalies, or enhancing water quality and resilience, Trinnex delivers value and impact to public sector clients across the country. **Job Description:** Trinnex, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDM Smith is seeking a MLOps Engineer with specialization in AI platform to join our growing team. Trinnex is building next generation tools that integrate sensor/IoT data, models, geospatial data and machine learning to solve unique engineering and environmental issues. In this role, you will own the operational backbone for our AI and Data Engineering products. You will be responsible for the end-to-end production lifecycle of our ML models, from helping build the application services that wrap them to creating the automated systems for their deployment. Your ultimate goal is to ensure the overall health, scalability, and reliability of these machine learning systems in production. This requires close collaboration with internal resources to research and implement MLOps best practices, driving continuous improvement and automation across our platforms. Responsibilities: • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support the entire machine learning lifecycle, from experimentation and training to deployment and monitoring. • Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for ML models and associated software services, ensuring automated, high-quality releases. • Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to containerize, deploy, and operationalize machine learning models, implementing solutions for both batch prediction and real-time inference use cases. • Collaborate with teams to architect generative AI applications, providing expert guidance on connecting LLMs to proprietary data sources and enabling them to execute tasks on behalf of users. • Champion MLOps best practices and empowers the Data Science team by providing guidance, training, and support for new tools and automated workflows. • Partner with Software Engineers to define and implement modern service architectures, including microservices and APIs, for ML-powered applications. • Implement and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to ensure environments are reproducible, secure, and auditable. • Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to track model performance, data drift, and infrastructure health, and aid in incident response. • Work with cybersecurity and architecture teams to design and enforce security best practices across our cloud environment, including network configuration, identity management, and data protection. • Maintain clear and detailed documentation for MLOps processes, infrastructure, and best practices. \#LI-DNI **Minimum Qualifications:** • Bachelor's Degree. • 5 years of related experience. • Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands. **Skills and Abilities:** • Excellent software engineering fundamentals, with a solid understanding of modern software service architecture (e.g., microservices, APIs) and CI/CD principles. • Deep, hands-on expertise with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes). • Proven experience designing, building, and securing infrastructure on a major cloud platform (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure), with a firm grasp of core concepts like identity and access management (IAM) and secure network architecture, including VPCs, firewall policies, and segmentation. • Demonstrable understanding of the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle and experience deploying models for both batch and real-time/live inference workloads. • Experience working with and understanding the trade-offs between different data storage paradigms, such as relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), analytical data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery), and cloud object storage (e.g., GCS, S3). • Solid understanding of Python. • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks effectively, both independently and as part of a team. **Assignment Category:** Fulltime-Regular **Amount of Travel Required:** 0% **EEO Statement:** We attract the best people in the industry, supporting their efforts to learn and grow. We strive to create a challenging and progressive work environment. We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations, with projects that our employees plan, design, build and operate as diverse as the needs of our clients. Trinnex is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. **Background Check and Drug Testing Information:** CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as “CDM Smith”) reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions. In addition, CDM Smith may conduct drug testing for designated positions. Background checks are conducted after an offer of employment has been made in the United States. 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In addition, during employment individuals may be required by CDM Smith or a CDM Smith client to successfully complete additional background checks, including motor vehicle record as well as drug testing. **Agency Disclaimer:** All vendors must have a signed CDM Smith Placement Agreement from the CDM Smith Recruitment Center Manager to receive payment for your placement. Verbal or written commitments from any other member of the CDM Smith staff will not be considered binding terms. All unsolicited resumes sent to CDM Smith and any resume submitted to any employee outside of CDM Smith Recruiting Center Team (RCT) will be considered property of CDM Smith. CDM Smith will not be held liable to pay a placement fee. **Business Unit:** TRX **Group:** TXP **Employment Type:** Regular **Visa Sponsorship Available:** No - We will not support sponsorship, i.e. H-1B or TN Visas for this position