Head of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Disseqt AI Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Software Development · 11-50 employees
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About the role
You will own the design, operation, and scaling of cloud, ML, and data infrastructure while leading a lean engineering team. This role requires a player-coach approach, balancing hands-on technical execution with strategic leadership of platform and delivery pipelines.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering with a proven track record in leadership roles. Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud platforms, and building scalable ML and data infrastructure is essential.
Full description
The Role
You'll own everything that keeps Disseqt running, scaling, and shipping fast. Infrastructure, platform tooling, delivery pipelines, ML infra, data infrastructure, cloud costs and the ability to scale all of it as we grow. This is a player-coach role: you'll lead a lean team but stay deeply hands-on.
What You'll Own
- Cloud Infrastructure - Design, build, and operate our cloud environment (AWS/GCP). Reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency are your north star
- ML & AI Infrastructure - Model serving, inference optimization, vector databases, GPU resource management, and MLOps pipelines
- Data Infrastructure - Own the data platform layer: pipelines, storage, lakehouse architecture, real-time streaming, and data reliability. Ensure data flows cleanly across our AI and product stack
- Platform Engineering - Internal developer platform, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, and developer experience
- Delivery Pipelines - Enterprise-grade release pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management
- DevSecOps - Security embedded into every pipeline and infrastructure layer not bolted on
- Scale & Reliability - Design for scale from day one. SLO definitions, SRE practices, incident response, and the ability to go from startup to enterprise-grade without rebuilding everything
- Cost Engineering - Cloud spend ownership, FinOps practices, resource optimization
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering - with at least 2–3 years in a leadership role
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
- Built or operated ML infrastructure - model serving, MLOps pipelines, GPU infra
- Experience building and operating data infrastructure at scale - pipelines, streaming (Kafka/Flink), data lakes, or warehouse tooling
- Strong CI/CD and delivery pipeline experience at scale
- Proven track record of scaling systems - you've taken infrastructure from early-stage to high-throughput production
- Security-first mindset - DevSecOps is second nature
- Cloud cost management - you've owned a budget and optimized it
- Startup experience preferred - comfortable with ambiguity and building from scratch
- Excellent communicator - can translate infra complexity to product and business stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI governance, compliance, or regulated enterprise environments
- Familiarity with LLMOps and agentic AI deployment patterns
- FinOps certification or equivalent hands-on cost engineering experience
Why Disseqt
- Greenfield infra - build it right from the start
- AI-era problems - GPU clusters, inference pipelines, agent deployment, data at scale
- Lean team, high ownership
- Backed by a mission: Ship Responsible AI
