Platform Engineer - MLOps & DataOps
About Opplane
Opplane helps organizations unlock the value of their data in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, connectivity, and regulation.
We work with businesses across complex, data-intensive industries to turn fragmented or difficult-to-use data into trusted, actionable intelligence. Our work spans AI and data solutions for banking and fintech, data governance and modernization, and connectivity technologies.
Drawing on years of industry experience at leading companies such as PayPal, Amazon and Xerox PARC, our team combines expertise across data, engineering, AI and business domains to help clients move from technical complexity to practical solutions that support better decisions, stronger governance and real business outcomes.
Why this role matters
Our Data and AI teams work directly with business stakeholders to deliver business value. Your role is to build and maintain the engineering foundations that make those solutions reliable, scalable and production-ready.
Getting something to work once isn't enough. You'll ensure solutions can be reproduced, monitored and troubleshot, taking ML workloads from notebooks to production pipelines while keeping our data platforms reliable and enabling data to be delivered as a service.
What you’ll do
MLOps & ML Lifecycle Enablement
Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for ML workloads, covering testing, versioning, packaging and promotion across environments.
Establish and operate ML lifecycle capabilities, including experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, serving and rollback procedures (e.g. MLflow).
Implement observability for ML workloads, covering pipeline health, model and data drift, performance, reliability and cost.
Work with data scientists to turn notebooks and experiments into governed, repeatable and production-ready pipelines.
Data & Platform Engineering
Administer and evolve data platforms, such as Cloudera and Databricks, ensuring consistent configuration, automation and operational standards.
Build the foundations for reliable data operations, enabling data workflows to be monitored, troubleshot, reproduced and promoted across environments.
Support the underlying cloud infrastructure, access management, networking and storage, working alongside other platform engineers.
Security, Reliability & Collaboration
Apply security and governance principles across data and ML assets, including least-privilege access, traceability and auditability.
Monitor and improve platform reliability, performance and cost, maintaining architecture documentation and operational runbooks.
What you’ll bring
Experience and expertise
4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, MLOps, DataOps or related roles.
Solid DevOps foundations, including Git-based CI/CD, automation and infrastructure management.
Intermediate Linux administration skills, including command-line operations, service management, permissions, log analysis and basic shell scripting.
Hands-on experience with ML lifecycle management, including experiment tracking, model registry, versioning, deployment and monitoring.
Working knowledge of Python, particularly for automation, scripting and integrating platform tooling.
Understanding of security and governance principles for data and ML platforms, including access control and least privilege.
Fluent English, both written and spoken.
How you work
You build solutions that are repeatable, observable and maintainable.
You troubleshoot methodically and get to the root cause.
You collaborate across data science and data engineering teams.
You adapt quickly to new tools and technologies.
Nice to have
Hands-on AWS experience, particularly IAM, networking, S3 and related services.
Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Terragrunt) and Kubernetes environments.
Experience with Cloudera or Databricks (Asset Bundles, Workflows).
Familiarity with ML lifecycle and platform tooling such as MLflow, Domino Data Lab or Chalk AI.
Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation using GitLab or Harness.
Exposure to observability tooling (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) and cloud cost optimisation.
Experience with feature stores, real-time model serving or production ML monitoring.
Relevant Databricks or AWS certifications.
What you’ll have the opportunity to do
Work hands-on across a diverse data and AI ecosystem, including Databricks, Cloudera, Domino Data Lab, Chalk AI and others.
Own the journey from ML experimentation to production, ensuring models and data workflows remain reliable, observable and scalable.
Solve real engineering challenges around automation, platform integration, reliability and making workloads repeatable across environments.
How we work
Small team, big challenges, real ownership. At Opplane, you’ll work on software and technology across data, AI and connectivity, helping build solutions that address complex technical and business needs. You’ll have access to leadership, opportunities to contribute to technical decisions and room to influence how we approach problems and build our products.
Depending on your role, you may collaborate with colleagues, clients and stakeholders across the US, Portugal, Singapore and India. Our work brings together different areas of expertise and perspectives, making it important to stay curious, exchange ideas and understand the challenges others are working to solve. We value people who take initiative, share their knowledge and bring new perspectives to the way we work.
Ultimately, it’s about bringing people and technology together to build solutions that meet today’s needs and anticipate tomorrow’s challenges.
Interested?
If this opportunity sounds like a good fit for your experience and the kind of work you want to do, we’d like to hear from you.
Apply to learn more about the role and how you could contribute to Opplane.
At Opplane, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Employment decisions are based on relevant qualifications, skills, experience and business needs, without discrimination on grounds protected by applicable law.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment practices.
- Role
- Data Platform & Engineering
- Location
- Portugal
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Opplane
Opplane specializes in providing advanced data-focused solutions for financial services, telecommunication, and reg-tech to accelerate their digital transformation journey.
Opplane leadership team is comprised of Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs and experienced executives. Its expertise comes from years of specific industry experience at some of the world’s top companies, such as PayPal, Xerox Parc, Amazon, Wells Fargo, SoFi in the areas of product management, data technology, data governance, data privacy, security, machine learning, and risk management.