DevOps Engineer Digital & AI

Iqeq; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

IQEQ is seeking a passionate Software Engineer in Hyderabad with strong backend, DevOps, and cloud expertise to design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native systems. You will focus on automating deployments, managing microservices, and ensuring reliability and security across Azure and AWS.

You will work on containerized workloads with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, while crafting automation tools and pipelines to improve developer productivity and platform resilience.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Python.
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and automated release strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling).
• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, with DR and automation.
• Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized apps using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm in production.
• Develop automation tools, APIs, and deployment scripts integrating cloud services and observability tools.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and security controls using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenTelemetry.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Linux networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Introduction

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineer with strong backend development, microservices, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering expertise. This role focuses on building, automating, deploying, and operating scalable cloud‑native applications and infrastructure while ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency.

What You'll Do

• You'll design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and automated release strategies, including Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling Deployments, to accelerate and improve software delivery.
• You'll architect, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation solutions.
• You'll build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, ensuring reliable platform operations, networking performance, and workload stability in production environments.
• You'll develop automation tools, APIs, operational utilities, and deployment scripts using Python, integrating cloud services, CI/CD platforms, observability solutions, and infrastructure management workflows.
• You'll implement and manage monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and security controls using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch, while supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvements in reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.

What we offer

• Competitive Compensation: Annual package including base salary, allowances, and performance incentives.
• Health & Insurance Coverage: Medical insurance, group term life insurance, and accident coverage.
• Allowances & Support: Transportation allowance, internet allowance, and shift allowance.
• Paid Time Off: Generous leave policy supporting work-life balance.
• Career Growth: Exposure to cutting‑edge AI/ML technologies and opportunities to work across Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud‑native solutions.

About You

• You hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and have 3-7 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar technical roles.
• You possess strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Python, along with a solid understanding of Linux, networking, microservices, and cloud‑native architectures.
• You have experience designing and supporting scalable, highly available production systems, infrastructure automation frameworks, Kubernetes‑based applications, developer productivity platforms, and monitoring and observability solutions.
• You are familiar with modern engineering practices such as SRE, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, distributed systems, API gateways, event‑driven architectures, and security‑integrated deployment pipelines.
• You bring experience with technologies such as FastAPI, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, AI/ML platforms, or MLOps, and thrive in product‑driven environments where collaboration, innovation, reliability, and continuous improvement are key to success.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long‑term relationships with all our stakeholders - including our employees, clients, and local communities - while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve - whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We're committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees' careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ‑EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We're committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We're emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.