Cloud & MLOps Engineer - Financial Services

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The opportunity

Our AI team, based in Belgium, supports clients across various business sectors, with a focus on Financial Services-including banking, capital markets, insurance, wealth and asset management-helping them embrace AI at scale and achieve tangible results while transforming their approach to the future.

We are currently looking for a talented and motivated Cloud & MLOps Engineer to join our team.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and operate secure, scalable ML/LLM platforms on CLoud, automating environments, packaging, testing and deployments via CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions).
• Implement end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps: data and model versioning (MLflow/DVC), automated training/inference pipelines, evaluation, and model governance (registries, approvals, rollbacks).
• Engineer robust RAG pipelines: data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing, caching and retrieval optimization for vector stores (Azure AI Search/Redis/pgvector).
• Harden runtime infrastructure (AKS/ACI) with IaC (Terraform/Bicep), secrets management (Key Vault), RBAC, network security and cost/usage monitoring.
• Set up observability across app/data/model layers (Application Insights, Prometheus/Grafana), implement SLOs, alerting, incident response and on-call runbooks.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers and security to enforce SDLC controls, perform performance tuning and capacity planning, and document operations.
• API Development & Backend Integration: Build and secure APIs for integration with core systems; develop event-driven microservices; support front-end integration.
• Security & Monitoring: Enforce robust security (OAuth2, Zero Trust, API rate limiting); establish monitoring dashboards for chatbot performance and infrastructure reliability.

Skills and attributes for success

• 4-8 years of experience in DevOps/MLOps or platform engineering, preferably in Financial Services.
• Hands-on with Cloud Technologies (AKS, ACR, App Service/Functions, Storage, Key Vault), Python, Bash, containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Azure ML and/or Databricks for ML lifecycle; familiarity with Transformers, PyTorch and inference optimization.
• Proficiency with CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), testing automation and artifact management.
• Experience with Backend & API: .NET Core, GraphQL, FastAPI, Node.js. as well as front end (React, JavaScript…)
• Experience with vector databases and LLM toolchains (LangChain, Semantic Kernel).
• Proven experience in Infrastructure Engineering: ARM/Bicep, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, general cloud security & IAM, Kubernetes, networking.
• Fluent in Dutch or French and a business proficiency in English.

Can we dream for more?

• Certifications: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA/CKAD, Azure AI Engineer.
• Policy-as-code and compliance tooling (OPA/Gatekeeper, Azure Policy), and DORA-aligned resilience practices.
• Hands-on experience operating platforms in highly regulated FS environments.
• Strong Azure infra engineering background; hybrid cloud; cloud migration.
• Experience with identity/security projects; general security knowledge; cloud networking.

What we offer you

• You will be part of a leading global professional services firm.
• You will be part of the EY family where everyone is willing to offer support and senior management is very accessible.
• You will join a dynamic and growing team with a great mix of young and experienced professionals focusing on financial services.
• You will get extensive trainings on technical matters, as well as soft skills and project management, and you will have access to new technologies and innovative equipment.
• We are proud of our flexible working arrangements, and we will support you to build a successful career and deliver excellent client service, without sacrificing your personal priorities.
• While our client-facing profession might require part-time working at client site and business traveling at times, we are committed to helping you achieve a lifestyle balance.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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