Role
Lead Engineer - IT, Security & Internal AI (Builder Role)
Role Overview
You will own the internal tech landscape across IT Infrastructure, Cloud Budgeting (FinOps), AI-driven productivity, Information Security, and Data Privacy. Your mandate is simple: Be a creative enabler. Build "secure paved roads" that allow our engineering teams to run fast, and be the first line of defense when their tools break.
What You Will Build & Own
- Modern IT Infrastructure & Endpoint Engineering
- Own the Fleet: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all physical machines, network devices, and office IT infrastructure.
- Hands‑on Troubleshooting (Break/Fix): When a machine breaks, a network drops, or an engineer is blocked by hardware, you roll up your sleeves and fix it.
- Zero‑Touch Provisioning: Engineer modern Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions so new teammates auto‑configure securely on day one.
- Cloud Budgeting & Deep FinOps
- Engineering Cost‑Efficiency: You will act as the financial gatekeeper for our tech stack, implementing aggressive FinOps practices beyond basic budget tracking.
- Right‑Sizing: Spot anomalies, right‑size workloads, and creatively optimize our AWS/GCP cloud footprint and SaaS licenses to ensure we operate lean.
- AI‑Driven Productivity & Operations
Reinvent Internal IT: Actively identify and deploy GenAI tools, Copilots, and LLMs to radically boost internal productivity. If an AI tool can automate an operation or cut costs, you have the mandate to build and deploy it.
- Security as an Enabler (Zero‑Friction, Zero‑Trust)
- Secure Paved Roads: Design a modern, Zero‑Trust security architecture embedded directly into the developer workflow. Security should be invisible to the engineer but impenetrable to the threat.
- National‑Grade Privacy: Act as the technical guardian of data privacy, translating the DPDP Act and SOC2/ISO 27001 requirements into automated code and infrastructure guardrails.
- Threat Defense: Own IAM, endpoint security across all physical devices, and automated incident response pipelines.
- Ecosystem Orchestration
Manage our vendor ecosystem (hardware suppliers, software licenses, SaaS platforms) as an engineer integrating external tools into our internal operating system. Demand engineering excellence from external partners, ensuring strict SLA adherence.
Who You Are (The DNA)
- Builder: 6-8 years of deep, hands‑on experience spanning Internal IT infrastructure, FinOps/Budget Management, and Information Security.
- Not afraid of Hardware: Comfortable opening up a machine to troubleshoot a hardware failure as you are running a security audit.
- Creative Problem Solver: Look at developer friction—whether it's a slow laptop or a strict firewall—as an engineering bug to be fixed.
- Forward‑Looking: Play with modern GenAI tools on weekends and constantly think about how to apply them to enterprise architecture.
- Mission‑Driven: Want to use your engineering talents to build, maintain, and protect the digital public infrastructure that will transform the Indian economy.
Why Join Us?
This is a blank canvas to build the ultimate, AI‑powered, hyper‑secure internal infrastructure for one of the most important tech initiatives in India's history. Join us, and let's build for the nation.