Devops Engineer

Perceptive; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan for you and your dependes

Personal Accident Insurance

Life Insurance

Critical illness cover

Salary structure and Flexi basket

Provident fund of 12%

Gratuity scheme

Internal growth and development plans

Job summary

Perceptive is on a mission to advance clinical research. We seek a DevOps/Platform Engineer to design and manage CI/CD pipelines, automate release workflows, and drive platform reliability across Dev, INT, UAT, and Production environments.

You will collaborate with development and QA teams, implement IaC with Terraform/Bicep/ARM, and optimize cloud costs on Azure. Fluency in English and 3+ years in DevOps are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or 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.
• Minimum 3+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering.
• ITIL Foundation knowledge desirable.
• English: Fluent.

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 Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Provision and maintain environments (Dev, INT, UAT, Production).
• Ensure environment consistency and repeatability.
• Optimise cloud resource usage and costs.
• Ensure system availability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Improve deployment success rate and reduce failures.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Carries out any other reasonable duties as requested within the scope of IMG R&D team.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Release management

Automation

Scripting

Troubleshooting

DevOps practices

Cloud platforms

IaC

Education

Bachelor or higher in CS/SE

AZ-400 certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub CI/CD

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Monitoring tools

Logging tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Azure

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.