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MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)

Judge Group, Inc.
Plano, TX Contractor
POSTED ON 6/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/21/2026
Location: Plano, TX Salary: $85.00 USD Hourly - $95.00 USD Hourly Description:
Job Title: MLOps Platform Engineer (SageMaker)

Location: Plano, TX

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Must Haves:
  • 10-15 years of software engineering experience focused on cloud infrastructure or ML platform operations.
  • 5 years hands-on with AWS, including deep expertise in Amazon SageMaker (Studio Classic Studio, Pipelines, Model Registry, Endpoints, Feature Store)
  • 3 years building and operating production MLOps pipelines - training, versioning, deployment, monitoring, rollback
  • Experience with SageMaker Unified Studio or Studio Classic - domain/project setup, blueprints, multi-tenant configuration
  • MLflow or equivalent experiment tracking
  • SageMaker Pipelines or similar workflow orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions)
  • Unified Studio is preferred to have but Classic is must have.


What you'll be doing

- Set up SageMaker Unified Studio platform - domain configuration, project provisioning, persona-based roles, and multi-environment (Dev, Prod-UAT, Prod) promotion workflows

- Build MLOps pipelines using SageMaker Pipelines - data extraction from Snowflake, preprocessing, training, evaluation, and model registration

- Manage SageMaker Model Registry - cross-account model promotion, versioning, immutability, and lineage tracking

- Configure MLflow experiment tracking - auto-logging of parameters, metrics, and artifacts

- Set up identity and access management - Okta SSO, SailPoint entitlements, persona-based execution roles, service roles for pipelines

- Build model serving - real-time SageMaker endpoints and batch prediction workflows

- Set up model monitoring - data drift, model drift, performance degradation detection

- Configure data catalog - searchable datasets, access-level visibility, access-request workflows, lineage

- Own platform operations - observability (CloudWatch, Datadog), logging, custom images, instance availability

Requirements:

Qualifications/ What you bring (Must Haves) - Highlight Top 3-5 skills

- 10-15 years of software engineering experience focused on cloud infrastructure or ML platform operations

- 5 years hands-on with AWS, including deep expertise in Amazon SageMaker (Studio, Pipelines, Model Registry, Endpoints, Feature Store)

- 3 years building and operating production MLOps pipelines - training, versioning, deployment, monitoring, rollback

- Experience with SageMaker Unified Studio or Studio Classic - domain/project setup, blueprints, multi-tenant configuration

- Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation

- IAM design for ML platforms - execution roles, service roles, cross-account access, Lake Formation, SSO/SAML

- MLflow or equivalent experiment tracking

- SageMaker Pipelines or similar workflow orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions)

- Model serving - real-time endpoints, batch transform, auto-scaling, endpoint monitoring

- Snowflake as a data source for ML pipelines

- Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration

- Networking and security - VPC, security groups, private endpoints, cross-account connectivity

Added bonus if you have (Preferred):

- SageMaker Unified Studio domain provisioning, custom blueprints, project standardization

- SageMaker Feature Store for online/offline feature management

- SageMaker Model Monitor - data quality checks, bias detection, drift detection

- AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification

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