What You'll Own

- End-to-end on-prem enterprise deployments across connected, restricted, and air-gapped environments.

- Build and maintain offline deployment bundles

(container images, Helm charts, model weights, runtime dependencies).

- Configure deployments for

Kubernetes (OpenShift, Rancher, Vanilla K8s)

, Linux, VMware, bare metal, and private cloud.

- Conduct customer environment assessments, deployment planning, and readiness validation.

- Build deployment automation using

Helm, Bash/Python/Ansible

, pre-flight checks, and post-install validation.

- Troubleshoot Kubernetes, Linux, GPU, networking, authentication (LDAP/AD/SAML), and production deployment issues.

- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment tooling, packaging, and platform reliability.

Required Experience

- 5+ years deploying enterprise software in on-prem, private cloud, bare metal, or hybrid environments

.

- Solid hands-on experience with

Kubernetes, Helm, Linux, Docker/Containers

, and enterprise networking.

- Experience with air-gapped deployments

, private registries, offline repositories, and secure enterprise environments.

- Knowledge of

LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, TLS/PKI

, and customer-facing deployment support.

Nice to Have

- OpenShift or Rancher.

- NVIDIA GPU, CUDA, ROCm, GPU Operator.

- LLM deployment (vLLM, Ollama, TGI).

- Bash, Python, or Ansible automation.





- Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated industries.

What we don't need

Someone who spins up a cloud workplace for every problem. Our customers range from enterprise datacenters with strict egress policies to fully air-gapped defense networks. You need to meet each of them where they are — read the environment accurately, adapt the deployment to fit their constraints, and ship a working system without asking for exceptions you won't get.

First 90 days

1. Days 1–30:

Shadow platform and DevOps engineers to fully understand the deployment architecture — services, dependencies, GPU inference stack, and current on-prem packaging. Do a dry-run deployment into the internal air-gap test environment.

2. Days 30–60:

Participate in one live enterprise deployment end-to-end. Identify gaps in current packaging and runbooks. Begin building automated pre-flight validation tooling.

3. Days 60–90:

Own an enterprise deployment from kickoff to handoff independently. Deliver a structured field report to platform engineering with actionable packaging improvements.

Compensation & logistics

- Competitive early-stage equity + salary

- In-person, Bangalore office; travel to customer sites required (India and international)

- Small team — direct access to founders and engineering

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (Bangalore Metropolitan Area)
🏢 Soch Street
📍 Bangalore Metropolitan Area