AI Ops - Engineer II

Your Title: AI Operations Engineer  

Job Location: Chennai

Our Department: CMS 

Are you passionate about deploying, monitoring, and scaling machine learning systems in production environments and eager to contribute to robust AI infrastructure within a collaborative team?

What You Will Do This role offers an exciting opportunity to begin a career in AI/ML operations engineering, working within a dynamic team that values reliability and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will contribute to the deployment and maintenance of AI/ML systems in production, gaining hands-on experience with MLOps best practices and infrastructure automation. This position provides a structured environment for developing core competencies in ML system operations, DevOps practices, and production ML monitoring, with direct guidance from experienced professionals.

• Assist in the deployment and maintenance of machine learning models in production environments under direct supervision, learning containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Support CI/CD pipeline development for ML workflows, including model versioning, automated testing, and deployment processes using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.

• Monitor ML model performance, data drift, and system health in production environments, implementing basic alerting and logging solutions.

• Contribute to infrastructure automation and configuration management for ML systems, learning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to operationalize models, ensuring scalability, reliability, and adherence to established MLOps procedures and best practices.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring 

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field. Trimble's Professional ladder typically requires four or more years of formal education.

• Foundational knowledge of DevOps principles and practices, with understanding of CI/CD concepts and basic system administration.

• Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (e.g., Python, Bash) with focus on automation scripting and system integration.

• Understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and basic orchestration concepts (Kubernetes fundamentals).

• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows.

• Basic understanding of machine learning concepts and the ML model lifecycle from development to production.

Preferred:

• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their ML/AI services (SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI).

• Familiarity with MLOps tools and frameworks (MLflow, Kubeflow, DVC, or similar).

• Basic experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

• Experience with Linux system administration and command-line tools.

• Knowledge of database systems and data pipeline technologies.

• Exposure to model serving frameworks (TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, ONNX Runtime).

• Basic understanding of security best practices for ML systems and data governance.