R&D Principal Technologist

Job description

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies. Job Title:  R&D Principal Technologist Location:  Bangalore Employment Type: Regular, full-time, hybrid work arrangement   The job   R&D Principal Technologist is a senior technology leader responsible for driving DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, and reliability strategies across the organization. The role requires 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or related areas, with expertise in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, observability, and automation. The individual will architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments while leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical strategy. Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills are essential to deliver platform modernization, engineering excellence, and measurable business outcomes.   Key responsibilities  • Lead the strategic evolution of CONNECT DevOps platform capabilities, partnering with engineering, product management, architecture, and business stakeholders to accelerate delivery of critical programs and enterprise initiatives. • Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for cloud-native DevOps platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across the organization. • Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering practices to proactively improve system availability, performance, resilience, and operational efficiency. • Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across software delivery, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, deployment models, observability, and cloud operations. • Drive the design and implementation of highly scalable, secure, and compliant CI/CD ecosystems that enable continuous delivery and accelerate product release velocity. • Drive observability strategies through enterprise monitoring, distributed tracing, telemetry, logging, and AIOps solutions to enhance operational intelligence and predictive incident management. • Lead the development of advanced automation, self-healing, auto-remediation, and intelligent operational tooling to minimize downtime, improve service reliability, and reduce manual intervention. •  Establish governance and best practices for Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, cloud resource optimization, and deployment automation across enterprise-scale environments. •  Influence organizational DevOps maturity by defining metrics, KPIs, and engineering excellence initiatives focused on reliability, deployment efficiency, platform adoption, and operational effectiveness. • Serve as the technical authority and trusted advisor for DevOps architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform modernization, and software delivery transformation initiatives across CONNECT.   Essential requirements • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field • 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with experience leading enterprise-scale initiatives. • Proven track record in defining and driving DevOps strategy, cloud adoption, platform modernization, and engineering excellence across multiple teams. • Expert understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), cloud-native architectures, containers, Kubernetes, DevSecOps and observability platforms. • Strong software development and automation expertise with proficiency in languages such as Python, PowerShell, C#, Go, or similar technologies. • Demonstrated ability to architect scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient solutions across Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud environments. • Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical direction across engineering organizations. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leadership, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive strategic technology decisions, and deliver measurable business outcomes. Desired skills and competencies • Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, Git, CI/CD pipeline design, and software delivery automation. • Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation), and cloud governance. • Extensive experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and modern platform engineering practices. • Strong experience in observability, monitoring, logging, automated remediation, and reliability engineering. • Advanced scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent