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Kobie Marketing
Kobie Marketing

Lead DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, India
Full-Time
Hybrid

TLDR

Owns cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability for a Data & AI platform, building reusable IaC, Kubernetes ops, security controls, and cross-team stakeholder alignment.

Join our India Tech Hub – Be among the first hires!  Kobie, a 35-year veteran of the loyalty industry, a multi-year Forrester Leader, and USA Top Workplace is expanding its global footprint by establishing a Tech Hub in India. Kobie partners with global brands to build deep connections with their customers through personalized, data-driven loyalty experiences and has a mission of growing enterprise value through loyalty. The Tech Hub will serve as a Global Capabilities Center for a broad range of technology roles, and this is your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping our presence in India. Join us as we continue to lead in loyalty, delivering innovative customer experiences for some of the world’s most recognized brands while working alongside some of the best and brightest in loyalty.  How you will make an impact

  • Strategy, Roadmap & Vision – build the roadmap for devops and observability in Data & AI teams. 

  • Design and build cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform (or Pulumi / CloudFormation), packaging reusable modules for AWS, Azure or GCP 

  • Own CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI — build, test, security scanning, blue-green or canary deploys, and automated rollback 

  • Operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS or GKE) and container workloads with LENS, Helm, ArgoCD or Flux — including autoscaling, ingress, secrets and policy 

  • Build observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK or Datadog — metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and SLO-driven alerting 

  • Implement security and compliance controls: IAM, SSO, secrets management (Vault / KMS), vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code (OPA, Checkov) and PCI-aware patterns 

  • Lead incident response — on-call, runbooks, blameless post-mortems, and continuous reliability work to drive down MTTR and toil 

  • Partner with developers on local dev experience, golden paths, internal platform tooling and developer self-service. 

  • Help shape internal platform standards as the stack evolves, contributing to design reviews and sharing knowledge across the India and U.S. teams 

  • Participate in a collaborative DevOps environment, working closely with developers, AI engineers, QA, DBAs and product partners across environments 

What you need to be successful

  • 8+ years of professional DevOps, SRE or platform-engineering experience operating production services 

  • 3+ years of hands-on work building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or CircleCI) and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation) 

  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS, AKS or GKE) and container tooling (Docker, Helm, ArgoCD or Flux) 

  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or Go; solid SQL skills and strong comfort with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) 

  • Hands-on experience with observability stacks: New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK or Datadog 

  • Solid understanding of cloud security and compliance practices, particularly in PCI-compliant or regulated environments 

  • Proven ability to work independently and within a team, managing priorities across concurrent projects and time zones, including on-call rotations 

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

  • Bonus Skills: 

  • Experience operating Dataiku DSS, Snowflake, or other large-scale data and analytics platforms in production 

  • Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), API gateways, and zero-trust networking 

  • Experience with policy-as-code (OPA / Rego, Checkov, tfsec) and supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore) 

  • Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization 

  • Experience supporting ML or LLM workloads — GPU scheduling, model-serving infra, vector databases or LangSmith / Langfuse 

  • Experience with database administration / reliability for PostgreSQL, MySQL or Snowflake 

  • AWS / Azure / GCP Professional, CKA / CKAD, or HashiCorp Terraform certification 

  • Experience in loyalty, martech, adtech or a comparable data-rich B2B domain 

About Kobie 

Named a Top Workplace in the USA and Top Remote Workplace, Kobie is where the best minds in loyalty come together, driven by passion and innovation. We’re always looking for talented individuals ready to join a collaborative, growth-focused culture.  

As a trusted partner to some of the world’s most recognized brands, we are loyalty leaders, helping brands build lasting emotional connections with their consumers.  We do this with a strategy-led technology approach that uncovers the truth behind what drives consumers on an emotional level.As we launch our India Tech Hub, we are excited to bring our award-winning culture to a new region - creating an environment where collaboration, flexibility, and career growth come together to build something truly special.  

We are proud to be the only loyalty provider to be externally recognized for their culture. We believe people thrive when they feel valued, supported, and empowered to be their authentic selves. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion ensures every teammate has a voice and the opportunity to be heard.  
Giving back is in our DNA at Kobie,through an annual fundraiser, charitable partnerships, and volunteer opportunities, we encourage our teammates to make a difference in their communities. 

To support our teammates beyond just their careers, we offer highly competitive benefits, comprehensive health coverage, and well-being perks that support our teammates and their dependents. We understand the importance of time for life outside of work - recognizing public holidays,offering flexible time off, and prioritizing work-life balance. 

As we expand into India, our new teammates will be fully integrated with our U.S. teams, working on global projects and gaining exposure to top industry leaders. With continued growth, we will establish a physical office in Bengaluru, India, giving teammates aspace for collaboration and fostering connection.  
Now is the perfect time to join Kobie. Be part of something big and help shape the future of our global capabilities center, the Kobie India Tech Hub. 

Benefits

Health Insurance

comprehensive health coverage

Paid Time Off

flexible time off

Wellness Stipend

well-being perks that support our teammates and their dependents

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