We have partnered with our client in their search for a Project Manager for a contract to hire opportunity in Plano, TX.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models and agent-based systems that automate technology and platform workflows for the internal platform.
- Lead the integration of intelligent agents into operational processes to improve decision-making, workflow execution, and process optimization across engineering and operations.
- Build AI-assisted tooling that improves Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development, validation, and change management (examples: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation style patterns) across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Partner with DevOps and platform engineering teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines using AI/ML for signal detection, predictive analytics, and automated remediation.
- Develop AI-powered observability automation to monitor, analyze, and proactively manage application and infrastructure health for internal platform services.
- Automate alert triage, root cause analysis assistance, and incident response workflows using ML-driven techniques, with clear guardrails and measurable outcomes.
- Engineer or enable data pipelines and feature workflows needed to support model training, evaluation, and real-time or near-real-time inference use cases.
- Implement and operate MLOps capabilities (deployment patterns, monitoring, quality gates, rollback strategies, documentation) aligned to enterprise expectations for reliability and risk management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, SRE, operations, architecture, controls) to identify high-value automation opportunities and deliver outcomes that can be adopted at scale.
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI/ML approaches and tooling, and translate them into practical, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities.
Required Qualifications (Minimum)
- Hands-on experience building agent-based systems and integrating them into real operational or engineering workflows.
- Experience applying AI/ML to automate or improve Infrastructure as Code workflows (examples: generation assistance, validation, policy checks, drift detection, change risk scoring).
- Familiarity with observability fundamentals and toolsets (examples: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and experience automating operational workflows using AI/ML.
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, machine learning, statistics, and software engineering best practices.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- AI/ML knowledge (2-3 years)
- AWS 8 years
- observability tools - Grafana, Slunk, Dynatrace
automation scripting languages - Bash, shell script, groovy
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years total engineering experience with 3+ years hands-on experience delivering AI/ML engineering solutions in production environments.
Title: Project Manager
Location: Plano, TX
Client Industry: FinTech
Compensation $70-85/hr
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