Devops Engineer

Perceptive; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan for you and dependents

Personal Accident Insurance

Life Insurance

Critical illness cover

Provident fund of 12%

Gratuity scheme

Internal growth and development papers

Job summary

At Perceptive in Hyderabad, India, we are hiring a DevOps/Platform Engineer to design and manage automated CI/CD pipelines across development, testing, and production environments.

You will automate build, test, release, and deployment workflows, optimize cloud resources with IaC, and collaborate with development and QA teams to improve deployment reliability and speed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineering experience
• 3+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering
• Fluent English
• Degree in CS/SE or equivalent
• Azure experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Automate build, test, release, and deployment workflows
• Improve pipeline efficiency, speed, and reliability
• Manage versioning, branching, and deployment strategies
• Manage cloud infrastructure using IaC
• Provision and maintain Dev/INT/UAT/Production environments
• Ensure environment consistency and repeatability
• Optimize cloud resource usage and costs
• Ensure system availability and performance
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Collaborate with development and QA teams
• Enable teams to adopt CI/CD best practices
• Improve developer experience and deployment workflows
• Support release coordination across teams
• Production support and operational excellence
• Disaster recovery, backup validation, and business continuity
• Governance, reliability & cost optimization
• Release governance, deployment approvals, rollback planning
• RCA ownership and preventive action tracking
• Environment governance and access management
• Cost optimization and FinOps awareness
• Other duties as requested within IMG R&D scope

Skills

CI/CD pipelines design

Release management

Environment management

Incident investigation & RCA

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Automation & DevOps mindset

English fluency

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent

AZ-400 or equivalent certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions

Monitoring/logging tools

Containerization platforms

Azure cloud environment management

Job description

We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster. Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH

• Medical plan for you and your dependents.
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Critical illness cover

WEALTH

• Salary structure and Flexi basket
• Provident fund of 12%
• Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF

• Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Key Responsibilities

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Automate build, test, release, and deployment workflows
• Improve pipeline efficiency, speed, and reliability
• Manage versioning, branching, and deployment strategies
• Platform & Infrastructure Automation: Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Provision and maintain environments (Dev, INT, UAT, Production)
• Ensure environment consistency and repeatability
• Optimise cloud resource usage and costs
• Reliability & Performance Engineering: Ensure system availability, scalability, and performance
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
• Improve deployment success rate and reduce failures
• Collaboration & Enablement: Work closely with development and QA teams
• Enable teams to adopt CI/CD best practices
• Improve developer experience and deployment workflows
• Support release coordination across teams
• Production Support and Operational Excellence: Support production deployments and post-deployment validation activities.
• Participate in incident response, RCA, and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with defined standards, processes, and operational procedures.
• Governance, Reliability & Cost Optimization: Security, compliance, audit, and change management awareness within DevOps processes.
• Release governance, deployment approvals, rollback planning, and deployment readiness checks.
• Disaster recovery, backup validation, and business continuity support.
• Platform reliability KPIs and ownership of operational metrics.
• Risk identification, mitigation, and escalation management.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) ownership and preventive action tracking.
• Environment governance and access management best practices.
• Cost optimization and FinOps accountability at appropriate role levels.
• Other Carries out any other reasonable duties as requested within the scope of IMG R&D team.

Functional Competencies (Technical Knowledge/Skills)

• Proficient in designing and managing automated CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Strong understanding of release, deployment, and environment management practices.
• Skilled in ensuring service readiness, stability, and operational compliance across environments.
• Experienced in incident investigation, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Proficient in scripting and automation for deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and operational tasks.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD best practices.

Behaviour Competencies

• Strong focus on automation and problem-solving
• Ownership of delivery and platform stability
• Collaborative mindset across engineering teams
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced delivery environments

Experience, Education and Certifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps / GitHub CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD workflows
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools
• Experience managing cloud environments (Azure preferred)
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Containerization platform experience
• Cloud certifications (AZ-400, etc.)
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• ITIL Foundation knowledge desirable
• English: Fluent
• Come as you are.

We're proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

At Perceptive, we enable the world’s pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations to rapidly discover and advance life-changing treatments. Together, our global team delivers unmatched scientific and technological expertise, global operational experience, and end-to-end solutions to help the global research community realize tomorrow’s new therapies. To do this, we need people like you. At Perceptive, your work will enable our customers to bring lifesaving and life-improving options to patients around the world. Learn how you can make a difference by joining our team and uniting under our shared goal – serving science to improve people’s lives.