Senior MLOps Engineer

Ignite IT Hub is seeking a senior MLOps Engineer to support reliable operation and controlled improvement of the U.S. Census Bureau's AWS-based LLM Autocoder. You will maintain software and data pipelines, automate testing and releases, and help resolve production issues. Working with AI/ML engineers and evaluators, you will make approved changes reproducible, observable, and recoverable across the American Community Survey (ACS) and related applications.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve software and data pipelines and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflows using Government-approved tools.

• Version and trace code, model identifiers, prompts, configurations, data dependencies, and evaluation artifacts so results and releases can be reproduced.

• Automate build, test, packaging, and deployment steps; integrate required validation evidence and approval checkpoints into release workflows.

• Monitor processing health, failures, latency, throughput, and resource use; connect model-performance monitoring with metrics defined by the data science and evaluation team.

• Diagnose production incidents and pipeline failures, document workarounds and root causes, and verify recovery with the AI/ML Engineer and Government staff.

• Prepare release and rollback procedures, integrate Government-approved changes, and verify system behavior after deployment.

• Apply access, secrets, logging, and sensitive-data handling con