Associate ML Ops Engineer
Role Overview
Associate ML Ops Engineer role supporting platform reliability, performance, and security and helping development teams build and maintain scalable solutions.
The role is intended for someone early in an SRE/MLOps career who will develop technical depth alongside a senior team.
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Company
AppliedAI is an Abu Dhabi-headquartered AI technology company serving regulated industries including healthcare, insurance, government, and financial services.
Its AI solutions automate complex, document-heavy processes.
Role
Associate ML Ops Engineer role supporting platform reliability, performance, and security and helping development teams build and maintain scalable solutions.
The role is intended for someone early in an SRE/MLOps career who will develop technical depth alongside a senior team.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain production, development, and staging environments to support high availability and performance.
- Troubleshoot issues with DevOps, MLOps, and development teams and support the observability stack and incident-response processes.
- Assist with capacity planning and performance optimization for systems handling up to 10,000 requests per minute.
- Support infrastructure security and regulatory compliance, on-call rotation, and implementation of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.
- Support cloud-cost optimization, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.
Experience and infrastructure knowledge
- One to two years of SRE, DevOps, or similar experience; internships and hands-on project experience are considered.
- Familiarity with AWS and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks and basic knowledge of availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and governance.
- Interest in cost optimization and FinOps; exposure to Infrastructure as Code concepts and understanding of logging, metrics, and tracing patterns.
Technical experience
- Some experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, Fargate, ALB, ELB, API Gateway, Route53, CloudFront, AppSync, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL, and Aurora.
- AWS messaging, security, and developer tools include EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Security Groups, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, IAM, ECR, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
- Exposure to monitoring and observability tools; basic Infrastructure as Code knowledge using CDK and/or Terraform.
- Understanding of event-driven architecture; some experience with containerization and microservices; basic scripting and automation skills.
- Experience in Agile environments is a plus.
Preferred qualifications
- AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications are preferred.
- Next.js, Node.js, Python, authentication systems such as Auth0 or SSO, regulatory compliance awareness, and interest in ML/LLM operations are preferred.
- Multi-region AWS deployments, high-traffic systems, database management and optimization, caching, CDN implementations, data lifecycle management, ETL, and vector or graph databases are listed as preferred or advantageous.
Working qualities
- Strong communication, problem-solving, teamwork, self-motivation, and proactive work habits are sought.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced startup and interest in continuous learning and skill development are sought.
Work environment and benefits
- The company offers mentorship from senior SRE, architecture, DevOps, and MLOps engineers and collaboration with dedicated technical teams.
- Benefits include professional development, 21 days of paid annual leave, company health insurance, and visa sponsorship for international candidates.
- The description mentions work with a globally distributed team and exposure to the Abu Dhabi headquarters; it does not explicitly state a workplace policy.
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