Lead DevOps Engineer

Rapido · Bengaluru

  • Experience4–8 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelmid
  • Posted2 Sept 2026
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About Rapido

Rapido is hiring in Bengaluru in automotive mobility. This role looks for around 4+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Go
  • Python
  • Java
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kafka
  • observability
  • DevOps

The role

A DevOps engineer at a mobility marketplace builds and operates production infrastructure, using Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability to support reliable service delivery. The role also applies Ansible and infrastructure security practices across self-managed databases and large-scale environments.

Full job description

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Rapido, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems excites you, then this is your fit.

Responsibilities:

You will lead and guide your team toward developing high-quality and optimised deliverables.

Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment, including self-managed DBs.

Manage a large-scale production environment and mission-critical infrastructure.

Codify and manage our infrastructure.

Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%.

Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities.

Scale technology considering cost and observability, and manage end-to-end processes (Lead, Influence, and evangelise the DevOps principles across the organisation), and understand.

DevOps philosophy and evangelise the principles across the organisation.

Work closely with Engineering Leadership to ensure that the infrastructure can serve current and future needs.

Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos.

Requirements:

B. Tech. /B. E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.

Minimum 6+ years of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant with a minimum of 2-3 years of experience leading a team.

Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes (and should have the ability to advise the dev team on how to build and run it).

Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet.

Experience in any one programming language, like GO/Python, Java, and can design and propose solutions in the software development life cycle.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to write scripts in more than one scripting language.

Experience working with database technologies, Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.