Senior Engineer - DevOps/ DataOps

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

"As a DataOps / DevOps Engineer on our Generative AI team, you’ll be at the cutting edge of language model applications, building innovative solutions across key areas of the FICO platform—including fraud detection, decision automation, workflow orchestration, and system optimization. You will deploy production systems, troubleshoot operational issues, and integrate services at scale. You’ll have the opportunity to make a measurable impact by bringing next-generation AI capabilities into production, collaborating with a world-class team to build robust, scalable infrastructure and accelerate innovation across FICO’s platform." - VP, AI Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient data and ML pipelines, infrastructure, and workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, and others.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using cloud-native services (preferably AWS) with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Crossplane.

• Design, containerize, and manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and/or ECS environments in AWS. Collaborate with development teams to optimize performance, deployment, and cost.

• Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure high availability, observability, scalability, and security of the data and ML infrastructure.

• Work closely with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to operationalize machine learning models, including building CI/CD pipelines for model training, validation, and deployment.

• Implement observability for data pipelines and ML services using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar.

• Develop and maintain automated pipelines for model retraining, monitoring drift, and versioning in production.

• Support experimentation and prototyping in areas such as Machine Learning and Generative AI, transitioning successful prototypes into production systems.

• Ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, compliant, and cost-efficient, following best practices in governance, identity, and access management.

What We’re Seeking

• 7+ years of experience in DataOps, MLOps, or related fields, with at least 2 years focused on ML model operationalization and workflow automation.

• Proficient in AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, ACM, Route 53, CloudWatch, EKS, and ECS.

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Helm.

• Familiarity with CI/CD for ML pipelines, GitOps practices, and tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo Workflows.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, or GitHub workflows.

• Understanding of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry).