Rapyuta Robotics, an ETH Zurich startup headquartered in Tokyo, aspires to become the global leader in making robots more accessible. We currently lead the pick-assist AMR market in Japan and have secured investments from reputable backers, including Goldman Sachs, Sony, and Yaskawa.
As we establish a global hub in Chennai as an independent center to facilitate our global expansion, we're seeking an Infrastructure Lead. Your role will be crucial in owning infrastructure architecture, tooling, and operations across all environments while serving as the primary interface between infrastructure and platform teams. You will standardize processes across deployment sites and ensure reliability, security, and optimal performance of our distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
Own and maintain critical infrastructure tooling including deployment automation, configuration management, system imaging, monitoring integration, and secure access protocols
Design and implement infrastructure-as-code with Ansible and Terraform for staging, production, edge, and customer environments
Design secure network topologies including VPNs and firewall rules, and unify network setup across deployment sites with documented, repeatable processes
Own monitoring and observability solution hosting: configure Site24x7 and Grafana including dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLOs, and reduce MTTR with actionable runbooks
Act as primary interface to infrastructure teams; prioritize and adopt reusable components across different systems and platforms
Enforce ISO ***** aligned controls including change management, least privilege, vulnerability remediation, patching cadence, and audit logs
Implement backup and disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cost and efficiency tuning across cloud and edge
Maintain robot and edge OS versions with systematic update and testing processes




Maintain and improve remote tool integration, manage access, approvals, and auditability across distributed systems
Minimum Qualifications:
At least 8 years in Infrastructure, Operations, or SRE roles on Linux with demonstrated ownership of critical systems
Hands-on with Ansible and Terraform including modules, testing, and CI integration for infrastructure automation
Practical experience with monitoring tools and Grafana including alerts, synthetic checks, and metrics/logs wiring
CI maintainer experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI covering secrets, runners, matrices, and artifacts
Strong Bash and one higher-level language such as Python for automation and tooling development
Networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, proxies, VPNs, firewalls, and secure remote ops with SSH and bastions
Working knowledge of ISO ***** controls and evidence collection for compliance frameworks
Strong communication skills in English
Preferred Qualifications:
Cloud operations on Azure and/or AWS GCP equivalents with multi-setting management
Containers Kubernetes and registry management for containerized workloads
Policy-as-code and secrets identity including Vault, SSO OIDC RBAC for security automation
Logging metrics stacks including ELK OpenSearch, Loki, Prometheus OpenTelemetry
Experience supporting robotics edge IoT deployments or similar deployment tooling
Strong ownership mentality with ability to take full responsibility for infrastructure components and their reliability
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills for working as interface between teams
Documentation and knowledge transfer capabilities for standardizing processes across sites
Why us?
Exciting and challenging problems are addressed using wide-ranging technologies and tools.
Competitive salary
Great team culture, peers and workplace

📌 Infrastructure Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Rapyuta Robotics
📍 Chennai