Senior MLops Engineer at Yassir Nigeria

Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (~$200M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world.

We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally.  Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior MLops Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

• Yassir is seeking a highly skilled and motivated MLOps Engineer (of any senior level) to join our Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and drive our ML Operations in application deployment and infrastructure development, enabling the training, deployment, experimentation, monitoring and altogether management of our ML applications and their artefacts, at scale and at speed.
• As an MLOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in making Yassir’s products and operations more AI-driven through the use of modern technologies. This is a very exciting opportunity, tackling some of Yassir’s most critical problems.

Key Responsibilities (What You Will Do)

• Deploy and monitor AI / ML models in production using CI/CD and MLOps best practices (e.g., retraining pipelines, model versioning, rollback strategies)
• Design and maintain scalable and secure MLOps infrastructure, leveraging our cloud platform (GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, or similar)
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and DevOps to build end-to-end ML systems - from experimentation to monitoring
• Implement automated testing, performance monitoring, alerting and drift detection pipelines for deployed models
• Ensure governance, traceability, and compliance of ML assets (e.g., model registry, audit trails, data lineage)
• Support AI governance and contribute to enforcing policies and controls across model lifecycle stages
• Identify bottlenecks, propose optimizations, and drive platform-wide observability and scalability efforts
• Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and internal tooling for self-service ML infrastructure

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in MLOps, DevOps for AI/ML, Machine Learning Engineering
• Clear knowledge of the end-to-end ML LifecycleStrong programming skills in Python, and familiarity with common ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Knowledge and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and ideally Terraform
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker)
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP much preferred, or AWS/Azure) and their ML-related services (e.g. for GCP: Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions), Good understanding of data pipelines, feature stores, monitoring and alerting tools

Nice To Have Skills:

• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or SonarQube.

Application Closing Date
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Method of Application
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