Executive Development Manager - AI Engineering

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH in Hyderabad is seeking a CI/CD & DevOps Engineer to lead engineering and operations for automated pipelines. This role requires designing CI/CD systems, managing deployments, and ensuring security compliance.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in CS/Engineering and experience with CI/CD platforms like Azure DevOps. Responsibilities include building IaC modules, implementing deployment strategies, and mentoring engineers on best practices.

Join us to drive production readiness and collaboration across teams in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production CI/CD pipelines for distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD platforms and IaC tools.
• Knowledge of security and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines for agent workflows.
• Build IaC modules for environments and ensure configuration management.
• Implement safe deployment strategies and provide operational readiness support.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a CI/CD & DevOps Engineer to lead the engineering and operations enablement for an enterprise-grade agent orchestration capability. This role owns the design and implementation of fully automated CI/CD pipelines, promotion gates, and infrastructure-as-code patterns that support secure, auditable, and reliable deployment of agent workflows across non-production and production environments Hanumawith tenant isolation. The role ensures release safety (blue/green, canary, rollback), drift detection, secrets management, and observability/SLO readiness, while partnering with platform engineering, security/identity, SRE, and app teams to reduce time-to-production and production risk.

Responsibilities

1) CI/CD Engineering & Promotion Gates (35%)

• Design and implement fully automated CI/CD pipelines for agent workflows and platform components, including versioning, unit/integration tests, security scans, and promotion gates across non-prod and prod environments. (Execute/Consult)
• Implement standardized release gates (policy checks, approvals, quality thresholds) and ensure traceability of artifacts promoted across environments. (Execute/Consult)
• Provide reusable pipeline templates and reference patterns to accelerate adoption across teams while maintaining consistent governance. (Execute)

2) Infrastructure as Code, Environment Provisioning & Drift Detection (25%)

• Build IaC modules and provisioning automation for environments (tenant isolation patterns, runtime prerequisites, gateways, secrets bootstrapping), with code review and drift detection. (Execute/Consult)
• Integrate environment requests with enterprise DevX/portal APIs where applicable, enabling consistent, self-service provisioning. (Consult/Execute)
• Ensure secure configuration management practices across environments (parameterization, policy-as-code compatibility, environment parity). (Execute)

3) Security, Identity, Secrets & Compliance Controls (20%)

• Implement CI/CD and runtime integration patterns for SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC enforcement hooks where required, and secrets management (vault/managed secrets) for pipelines and runtime components. (Consult/Execute)
• Ensure audit logs exist for pipeline executions, approvals, deployments, configuration changes, and rollback events; support evidence needs for compliance reviews. (Execute/Consult)
• Enforce software supply-chain controls (signed artifacts/images, SBOM where mandated, dependency scanning, provenance). (Execute/Consult)

4) Release Safety, Reliability & Operational Readiness (15%)

• Implement safe deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery) and automated rollback paths; validate through drills and runbooks. (Execute/Consult)
• Partner with SRE to define SLIs/SLOs for deployment success, rollout latency, and pipeline availability; ensure observability is integrated (metrics/logs/traces). (Consult/Execute)
• Provide incident, rollback, and migration runbooks; participate in release incident triage and stabilization. (Execute/Consult)

5) Enablement, Adoption & Continuous Improvement (5%)

• Mentor engineers on CI/CD best practices, release hygiene, and IaC patterns; drive continuous improvement to reduce lead time and change failure rate. (Consult/Execute)
• Decision-Making Autonomy: High-moderate — significant autonomy in CI/CD and IaC design choices within enterprise guardrails; escalates enterprise-wide security and governance policy decisions.
• Supervision Required: Moderate-low — operates with general direction from platform/SRE leadership; periodic reviews for architecture and compliance readiness.
• Complexity of Role: High — multi-tenant environments, strict audit/compliance, progressive delivery, and multiple integration points across tooling and identity systems.
• Cross-Functional Interactions: Yes — continuous interaction with platform engineering, DevX/portal, security/identity, SRE/observability, and application teams.

Qualifications

Key Skills/Experience RequiredMinimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience building production CI/CD pipelines and operating deployment workflows for distributed systems.

Required Expertise

• CI/CD platforms: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions (or equivalent), branch policies, PR checks, artifact/version management
• IaC: Terraform/Bicep/ARM (at least one strong), drift detection, environment modularization
• Containers/runtimes: Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals; familiarity with service meshes and ingress/gateway patterns is a plus
• Security: secrets management, supply-chain security (scanning/signing/provenance), least privilege, audit logging expectations
• Observability: integration of metrics/logs/traces; release dashboards; incident support patterns
• Release engineering: blue/green, canary, progressive delivery, rollback automation, deployment verification tests

Differentiating Competencies

• Ownership: drives CI/CD and IaC outcomes end-to-end; ensures production readiness and stability
• Collaboration & customer focus: treats app teams as platform customers; balances speed with controls
• Communication: clear release readiness reporting; crisp RCA documentation and improvement proposals
• Adaptability: adjusts to evolving governance, identity, and tooling constraints without breaking delivery
• Proactiveness & initiative: anticipates release risks and dependency conflicts; resolves early
• Strategic thinking (emerging): identifies reusable patterns that accelerate adoption and reduce operational toil