About Us

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.

Position Overview

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 airgapped 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.

What You'll Do

- 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.

What You'll BringMust-Have

- Minimum 5 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 Harbor.
- 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.

Positive-to-Have

- Exposure to classified, defence or otherwise airgapped programmes.
- VMware vSphere, Proxmox or KVM virtualization 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.

Logistics

- Employment Type: Full-time
- Department: Engineering — Platform
- Location: Bengaluru, India

Pay: ₹692,125.36 - ₹1,801,601.03 per year

Benefits:

- Adaptable schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

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