DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Team: Technology

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: Open to strong DevOps engineers across experience levels

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

Skylark Drones is looking for highly capable DevOps Engineers to design, build, and operate cloud and platform infrastructure that powers AI, drone, and enterprise software systems. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working across cloud infrastructure and internal platforms, automating everything possible, and enabling teams to ship reliable systems at scale.

You will work closely with the Founders Office, AI, product, and engineering teams to build cloud-native and platform-level capabilities that support large-scale data processing, AI workloads, and mission-critical enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking
• Build and maintain internal platforms that improve developer productivity and system reliability
• Architect and manage CI and CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable deployments
• Implement infrastructure as code for provisioning and configuration management
• Support AI and data-heavy workloads including model training, inference, and large-scale pipelines
• Build and operate containerized environments and orchestration platforms
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response systems
• Ensure high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of production systems
• Work closely with engineering teams to abstract complexity and enable self-service capabilities

Mandatory Skills and Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure
• Experience building CI and CD pipelines and automation workflows
• Strong scripting and automation skills
• Ability to think in terms of systems, reliability, and scalability

Preferred Attributes

• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms
• Exposure to platform engineering or internal developer platforms
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and cloud-native architectures
• Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, or SRE practices
• Strong ownership mindset with bias for action

Our Core Values

At Skylark Drones, our values guide how we work, collaborate, and grow together. We look for people who live these values every day.

Mutual Respect

We treat everyone with kindness, empathy, and professionalism. We value diverse perspectives and foster an inclusive environment where people feel respected and heard.

Why this is important: Mutual respect enables strong collaboration across engineering, AI, and product teams.

Communication

We believe in clear, transparent, and thoughtful communication. We share context, document decisions, and communicate issues proactively.

Why this is important: Strong communication reduces risk and improves system reliability.

Dependability and Adaptability

We take ownership of our systems and ensure they run reliably while adapting to changing requirements and scale.

Why this is important: Dependability builds trust, and adaptability is essential in evolving cloud and platform systems.

Bias for Action

We move quickly to automate, fix, and improve systems. We value execution and learning from real-world outcomes.

Why this is important: A bias for action minimizes downtime and accelerates improvement.

Strive for Excellence

We set high standards for reliability, security, performance, and scalability and continuously raise the bar.

Why this is important: Excellence is critical for enterprise-grade platforms.

Learn and Grow

We continuously learn new tools, architectures, and best practices to improve our cloud and platform capabilities.

Why this is important: Learning keeps systems modern, resilient, and scalable.

Why Join Skylark Drones

• Build cloud and platform infrastructure that powers AI and drone technology at scale
• Work on real-world, production-grade systems with high impact
• High ownership role with freedom to design, automate, and improve platforms
• Collaborate with strong engineers across AI, product, and platform teams
• Solve complex infrastructure challenges in a fast-growing organization

If you enjoy working across cloud infrastructure and internal platforms, building systems that scale, and owning reliability end to end, we would love to hear from you.