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MLOps Engineer

Full-Time MLOps Engineers from $2,000/month

Find vetted MLOps Engineers who fit how your team works in just under 2 weeks, and Kuubiik handles the contract, payments, and HR.

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How much does it cost to outsource a MLOps Engineer?

Compare monthly outsourcing costs and skill levels across junior, mid-level, and senior MLOps Engineers.

Junior MLOps Engineer

1 - 2 years of experience

  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
  • 1-2 years of experience in DevOps, data engineering, or ML engineering
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git)
  • Basic understanding of containerisation tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Eager to learn ML lifecycle management tools and best practices

Southeast Asia

$2,000 - $2,800 /mo

LATAM

$3,800 - $5,500 /mo

USA

$8,000 - $10,000 /mo

Mid-Level MLOps Engineer

3 - 5 years of experience

  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 3+ years of experience in MLOps, DevOps, or platform engineering with an ML focus
  • Hands-on experience with ML platforms (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI)
  • Strong Docker and Kubernetes skills for model containerisation and orchestration
  • Solid Python skills and familiarity with model training and evaluation workflows
  • Experience building automated training, deployment, and monitoring pipelines

Southeast Asia

$2,800 - $4,200 /mo

LATAM

$5,500 - $7,500 /mo

USA

$12,000 - $15,500 /mo

Senior MLOps Engineer

6+ years of experience

  • Deep expertise in ML infrastructure, platform engineering, and production ML systems
  • 6+ years of experience managing ML lifecycle at scale in production environments
  • Proven ability to design end-to-end MLOps architectures and platform strategies
  • Expert-level knowledge of model serving, monitoring, and drift detection systems
  • Experience leading MLOps teams and defining engineering standards
  • Track record of reducing model deployment time and improving system reliability

Southeast Asia

$4,200 - $6,000 /mo

LATAM

$7,500 - $11,000 /mo

USA

$15,500 - $20,000 /mo

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MLOps Engineer responsibilities and core areas of work

ML Pipeline Development

  • An MLOps Engineer designs and builds end-to-end ML pipelines covering data ingestion, training, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Automate pipeline execution and ensure pipelines are reproducible and version-controlled.
  • Integrate pipelines with CI/CD systems so models are tested and deployed with the same rigour as application code.

Model Deployment & Serving

  • Package models as containerised services and deploy them to cloud-native inference platforms.
  • Set up model serving infrastructure with low-latency endpoints for real-time and batch inference.
  • Manage model versioning and canary deployments to enable safe, gradual rollouts.

Monitoring & Observability

  • Implement monitoring systems that track model performance, data drift, and prediction quality in production.
  • Set up alerting workflows so teams are notified immediately when a model degrades.
  • Build observability dashboards that give data scientists and stakeholders visibility into model health.

Experiment Tracking

  • Set up experiment tracking platforms (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Neptune) to log runs, metrics, and artefacts.
  • Enforce consistent experiment logging practices across the data science team.
  • Maintain model registries that document approved models and their associated metadata.

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • Provision and manage ML compute resources on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) efficiently.
  • Configure Kubernetes clusters and GPU workloads for scalable model training.
  • Optimise infrastructure costs by implementing spot instances, autoscaling, and resource quotas.

Retraining & Continuous Learning

  • Build automated retraining pipelines triggered by data drift, scheduled intervals, or performance thresholds.
  • Validate newly trained models against holdout datasets before promoting them to production.
  • Manage the full model lifecycle from initial deployment through deprecation.

Collaboration & Enablement

  • An MLOps Engineer works closely with data scientists to operationalise their research models into production-grade systems.
  • Provide tooling and documentation that accelerates the ML development cycle.
  • Advocate for MLOps best practices within the engineering organisation and drive adoption.

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What is MLOps?

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MLOps combines DevOps practices with machine learning...

What tools do you use?

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We use Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines...

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ASIA: From $1,500 - $2,200/month

LATAM: From $2,800 - $4,200/month

AVG. US SALARY: $8,500 - $11,000/month

SAVINGS: 50 - 80%

ASIA: From $1,500 - $2,200/month

LATAM: From $2,800 - $4,000/month

AVG. US SALARY: $8,000 - $10,500/month

SAVINGS: 50 - 80%

ASIA: From $1,500 - $2,200/month

LATAM: From $2,800 - $4,000/month

AVG. US SALARY: $8,000 - $10,500/month

SAVINGS: 50 - 80%

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