ML Ops Engineer (IT)

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Position Overview

The MLOps Engineer (GCP Specialization) is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure and processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to enable the seamless development, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning models at scale. This role bridges data science and data engineering, Infrastructure, ensuring that machine learning systems are reliable, scalable, and optimized for GCP environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Model Deployment: Design and implement pipelines for deploying machine learning models into production using GCP services such as AI Platform, Vertex AI, or Cloud Run, Cloud Composer ensuring high availability and performance.
• Infrastructure Management: Build and maintain scalable GCP-based infrastructure using services like Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Cloud Storage to support model training, deployment, and inference.
• Automation: Develop automated workflows for data ingestion, model training, validation, and deployment using GCP tools like Cloud Composer, and CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitLab and Bitbucket Repositories.
• Monitoring and Maintenance: Implement monitoring solutions using Google Cloud Monitoring and Logging to track model performance, data drift, and system health, and take corrective actions as needed.
• Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, Data engineers, Infrastructure and DevOps teams to streamline the ML lifecycle and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Versioning and Reproducibility: Manage versioning of datasets, models, and code using GCP tools like Artifact Registry or Cloud Storage to ensure reproducibility and traceability of machine learning experiments.
• Optimization: Optimize model performance and resource utilization on GCP, leveraging containerization with Docker and GKE, and utilizing cost-efficient resources like preemptible VMs or Cloud TPU/GPU.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure ML systems comply with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) using GCP’s security tools like Cloud IAM, VPC Service Controls, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
• Tooling: Integrate GCP-native tools (e.g., Vertex AI, Cloud composer) and open-source MLOps frameworks (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) to support the ML lifecycle.

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
• Expertise in GCP services, including Vertex AI, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Composer, Data proc or PySpark and managed Airflow.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code - Terraform.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, GKE) and CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) and MLOps tools compatible with GCP (MLflow, Kubeflow) and Gen AI RAG applications.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts, including ETL pipelines with BigQuery and Dataflow, Dataproc - Pyspark.

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed ML systems on GCP, such as Vertex AI Pipelines or Kubeflow on GKE, Feature Store.
• Exposure to Generative AI (GenAI) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with GCP’s model monitoring tools and techniques for detecting data drift or model degradation.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and API development using Cloud Endpoints or Cloud Functions.
• Google Cloud Professional certifications (e.g., Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect).

What We’ll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

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