Cloud Machine Learning Engineer at Vodacom

Role Purpose

• The Cloud Machine Learning Engineer position is based within Technology.

The Machine Learning Engineer delivers through self and others to:

• Use their knowledge of ML/AI and combine it with programming and software engineering skills to enable easier use of and access to machine learning models and analyses
• Support local markets and group functions in obtaining business value from the ML
   

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and develop Machine Learning systems and patterns
• Automate predictive model software, including model training
• Productionise data science prototypes and develop Machine Learning apps according to data science requirements
• Facilitate the flow of data between ML/AI models and the companies data systems
• Enhancing data pipelines to ensure that data is clean, accurate and optimized for machine learning models
• Work with the architecture team to evolve the Big Data capabilities (reusable assets/patterns) and components to support the business requirements/objectives
• Research, investigate and evaluate new technologies and methods to improve delivery and sustainability of machine learning applications and services
• Make contributions to the process of defining best practice for the agile development of applications to run on the Big Data Platform

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric / Grade 12(essential) 
• 3 year IT or IS degree or diploma or related field is essential 
• Advanced degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics or a related discipline would be an advantage
• Relevant cloud certification at professional or associate level
• 5+ years BI or related software development experience essential
• Agile exposure, Kanban or Scrum
• Experience managing the development life-cycle for agile software development projects
• Robust data modelling and data architecture skills
• Knowledge of Big Data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Yarn, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working with distributed ML frameworks like H2O and/or TensorFlow
• Experience in working with various ML libraries
• Programming experience in Java, Python is required
• Experience working containerisation services such as Docker/Kubernetes or cloud alternatives would be an advantage
• Working experience with AWS or GCP would be desirable
• Working experience with other distributed technologies, NoSQL databases and streaming technologies would be desirable