Cloud/Data Operations Engineer

Human Loops; Nagpur District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Human Loops, an early-stage Nagpur-based AI data operations company, seeks a Cloud/Data Operations Engineer to own data ingest paths from field sites to client cloud storage. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and performance tuning across on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

You will write Python and Bash tooling, manage storage and transfer pipelines, and monitor throughput to ensure timely, accurate data delivery for AI/robotics applications.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud operations, infrastructure, or data engineering.
• Strong Linux command-line ability and terminal-first work style.
• Solid Bash scripting and Python for automation.
• Production experience with object storage (S3/GCS/OCI) including IAM and lifecycle policies.
• Understanding of throughput, networking, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with large file transfers (rclone/rsync) and cloud CLIs.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools to accelerate work output.

Responsibilities

• Manage local ingest infrastructure—staging servers, NAS storage, and field equipment.
• Design and maintain cloud bucket structures with client data isolation.
• Build and run automated upload pipelines—resumable, parallel, bandwidth-aware.

Skills

Linux CLI

Bash scripting

Python automation

Networking basics

Data handling

Tools

AWS S3

GCS/OCI

rclone

rsync

Cloud CLIs

ffmpeg

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cloud / Data Operations Engineer

Human Loops is a Physical AI operations company supporting global AI, robotics, and technology companies through data collection, annotation, validation, teleoperation, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) services. Our operations team plays a key role in delivering high-quality datasets while maintaining speed, accuracy, and operational excellence.

We are early stage startup, growing rapidly out of Nagpur, building a New-Age Company catering to the AI Companies at the forefront of this technology revolution. We are looking for Engineers with very seen interest in Data, Cloud and AI Tools. You musn't be an expert but a very very quick learner, eager to grow and grasp a lot.

About The Role

We move roughly 500TB of client data every month. Field teams across multiple sites capture egocentric and multimodal video daily; it lands on our local servers, gets verified and organized, and ships to client cloud buckets. You own that path.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a support desk. You'll spend your time in a terminal, writing scripts that remove manual work, and diagnosing why a transfer is running at half the speed it should.

What You'll Do

• Manage local ingest infrastructure — staging servers, card-reader stations, NAS storage
• Design and maintain cloud bucket and prefix structure for client data, with correct access isolation between clients
• Build and run automated upload pipelines — resumable, parallel, bandwidth-aware, with verification and alerting
• Write Python and Bash tooling to enforce naming conventions, organize captures, verify integrity, and generate reports
• Maintain a catalogue of every capture: site, date, task type, employee, size, upload and delivery status
• Monitor storage capacity, disk health, and network throughput; plan ahead of growth
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks across disk, filesystem, and network
• Document runbooks so operations can run daily ingest without escalating

Required

• 3+ years in cloud operations, infrastructure, or data engineering
• Strong Linux command-line ability — you work terminal-first, no GUI dependency
• Solid Bash scripting
• Python for automation — real working code, not copy-pasted snippets
• Object storage in production: AWS S3 or equivalent (GCS, OCI) — bucket and prefix design, IAM, lifecycle policy, storage classes
• Practical networking sense: throughput testing, and the ability to work out whether a slow transfer is the disk, the network, or the script
• Large file transfer tooling: rclone, rsync, or cloud CLIs, including resumable and parallel transfers
• Fluent with AI coding tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot) — we expect you to use them to work faster, and to check their output

Preferred

• AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator, or Cloud Practitioner)
• Storage fundamentals: RAID, ZFS/XFS, SMART monitoring
• Basic SQL for building a data catalogue
• Video file handling — ffmpeg, container formats
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Not Required

Windows Server administration, helpdesk or ticketing experience, ERP support.

Why this role

You'll have a critical role in infrastructure carrying half a petabyte a month for global AI labs, in a company where the data pipeline is the product — not a cost centre. Direct access to the Chief AI Officer, and real authority over how this is built.

Skills: data,storage,cloud