Azure DevOps (MLOps) Engineer - Lead

Job Title: Azure DevOps Engineer (MLOps) - Lead
Location: Abu Dhabi
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

NorthBay is a leading AWS Premier Partner, is seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps / MLOps Engineer (Azure, Terraform) to join their growing cloud and AI engineering team. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong foundation in cloud DevOps practices and a passion for implementing MLOps solutions at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

• Manage container orchestration environments using Kubernetes

• Ensure cloud infrastructure is optimized, secure, and monitored effectively

• Collaborate with data science teams to support ML model deployment and operationalization

• Implement MLOps best practices, including model versioning, deployment strategies (e.g., blue-green), monitoring (data drift, concept drift), and experiment tracking (e.g., MLflow)

• Build and maintain automated ML pipelines to streamline model lifecycle management

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps and/or MLOps roles

• Proficient in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps

• Strong expertise in Terraform and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and monitoring

• Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with MLflow, TFX, Kubeflow, or SageMaker Pipelines

• Knowledge of model performance monitoring and ML system reliability

• Familiarity with AWS MLOps stack or equivalent tools on Azure/GCP