DevOps Engineer - Airgapped Systems

Blurgs AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site with up to 4 work-from-home???

Job summary

Blurgs AI in Bengaluru invites an experienced platform engineer to own how Trident is installed, operated and updated inside air-gapped environments. You will build bare-metal Kubernetes clusters from scratch, carry every dependency offline, and define the release and sign-off process that does not exist today.

Reporting directly to the CTO, you will work with QA and a senior engineer to architect the platform with reliability at the core, automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years in DevOps, infrastructure or platform engineering with senior/lead ownership.
• Hands-on in on-premises, bare-metal or air-gapped environments, not cloud-only.
• Kubernetes built and operated from scratch (CNI, ingress, storage, upgrades).
• Terraform and configuration management (Ansible or equivalent) in production.
• Self-hosted CI/CD and artifact management such as GitLab or Jenkins with Nexus, Artifactory or Harbour.
• Linux systems depth: systemd, networking, storage, hardening and production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate bare-metal Kubernetes clusters across isolated zones.
• Build the offline software supply chain: internal container registry, artifact repository and curated language and OS package mirrors.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible and PXE-based bare-metal pipelines.
• Design multi-cluster deployment scripts and repeatable release procedures for our microservices platform.
• Establish sign-off, patching and offline transfer procedures together with QA and engineering.
• Stand up self-hosted observability metrics, logs, tracing and alerting across multiple isolated sites.
• Harden RHEL and Ubuntu systems, manage internal PKI and secrets, and support security reviews.
• Travel occasionally to nearby deployment sites for installation and commissioning.
• Champion the platform and reliability viewpoint in architecture discussions with the CTO and senior engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab/Jenkins CI/CD

Nexus/Artifactory/Harbor

Linux administration

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Nexus/Artifactory/Harbor

PXE deployment

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Blurgs AI is a Bengaluru-based deep-tech company building real-time intelligence systems for defence, national security and commercial maritime operations. Our Trident platform fuses radar, sonar, AIS, satellite imagery, RF signals and open-source data with AI and geospatial analytics, so that operators can act on what is actually happening rather than on fragmented feeds. We work in environments where failure is not an option, alongside naval and coast guard agencies, ports, shipyards and conservation partners. Our systems run inside isolated, classified and disconnected networks, which means the engineering bar is set by reliability, auditability and self-sufficiency rather than by speed alone.

About the Role

This is our first dedicated platform engineering hire. The product is built; the deployment story is not. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will own how Trident is installed, operated and updated inside fully air-gapped environments, building bare-metal Kubernetes clusters from scratch, carrying every dependency offline, and defining the release and sign-off process that does not exist today. You will work closely with QA and a senior engineer, and you are expected to argue the platform and reliability point of view when it matters.

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Mode: On-site, with up to 4 work-from-home days per month
• Working Hours: 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
• Travel: Occasional deployment visits to nearby sites
• Reports To: Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate bare-metal Kubernetes clusters across isolated security zones with zero external dependencies.
• Build the offline software supply chain: internal container registry, artifact repository and curated language and OS package mirrors.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible and PXE-based bare-metal pipelines.
• Design multi-cluster deployment scripts and repeatable release procedures for our microservices platform.
• Establish sign-off, patching and offline transfer procedures together with QA and engineering.
• Stand up self-hosted observability metrics, logs, tracing and alerting across multiple isolated sites.
• Harden RHEL and Ubuntu systems, manage internal PKI and secrets, and support security reviews.
• Travel occasionally to nearby deployment sites for installation and commissioning.
• Champion the platform and reliability viewpoint in architecture discussions with the CTO and senior engineers.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Minimum 6 years in DevOps, infrastructure or platform engineering, with recent senior or lead-level ownership.
• Hands-on experience deploying in on-premises, bare-metal or disconnected environments, not cloud-managed services alone.
• Kubernetes built and operated from scratch, including CNI, ingress, storage and cluster upgrades.
• Terraform and configuration management (Ansible or equivalent) used in production.
• Self-hosted CI/CD and artifact management such as GitLab or Jenkins with Nexus, Artifactory or Harbour.
• Linux systems depth: systemd, networking, storage, hardening and production troubleshooting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. You will work directly with QA, senior engineers and the CTO.

Good-to-Have

• Exposure to classified, defence or otherwise air-gapped programmes.
• VMware vSphere, Proxmox or KVM virtualisation at scale.
• Self-hosted observability with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki or ELK.
• HashiCorp Vault, internal PKI, SELinux or STIG-style hardening.
• Python, Go or Bash tooling and RPM or DEB packaging.

There is no runbook to follow here. You are the one who writes it.