AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals and minerals – safely, efficiently and more sustainably.

We’re the first software business in the world to have our sustainability targets validated by the SBTi, and we’ve been recognized for the transparency and ambition of our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ve also recently been named as one of the world’s most innovative companies.

If you’re a curious and collaborative person who wants to make a big impact through technology, then we want to hear from you! Find out more at AVEVA Careers.

For more information about our privacy policy and how to manage cookies, visit our Privacy Policy.

Job Title: Cloud DevOps Manager
Location: Bengaluru
Type: Full time permanent
Path: Management

Benefits: Competitive salary; high quality healthcare for employees, dependents and parents; annual healthcare assessments; employee provident fund; life and accident insurance; childcare reimbursements for all employees with kids up to 8 years; three days paid volunteering; optional meal cards, car lease, long service awards 

About the Role
AVEVA’s Cloud DevOps (CDO) function is accountable for the operation of all AVEVA cloud solutions with the goal of achieving and maintaining a minimum monthly service availability SLA of 99.95%. 

As a Cloud DevOps Manager, you will lead a team of CDO Engineers to continually improve and develop AVEVA’s Cloud solutions, including release and deployment processes and pipelines, enhancing, and supporting our monitoring capabilities, and diagnosing and resolving cloud infrastructure incidents to optimize uptime and allow us to scale through repeatable and standardized work practices. 

You will play a management role in the team planning, organisation, and co-ordination, both in your and close liaison with other CDO teams located in UK and US.

As a leader you will empower and help your team by learning, exhibiting, and mentoring the Cloud DevOps (India) team in designing, developing, and maintaining the security, governance, reporting and operational monitoring frameworks used for AVEVA’s cloud products.

Key Accountabilities

To administer, motivate and facilitate direct and indirect reports in order for them to achieve the optimum individual performance and contribute to overall group and wider department performance

To be a strong and active practitioner of agile software development processes and practices and ensure they are adhered to by the entire team

To ensure team met readiness criteria and actively participate in pre-planning activities and during PI planning event to ensure team can commitment to delivery of an agreed PI plan and subsequent delivery in proceeding PI

To work with the head of department, other regional CDO managers on capacity planning, recruitment, skill needs and training programmes and support the management in achieving the AVEVA Business plan

Coordination with development manager colleagues in product scrum team/s, cross-team initiatives to share knowledge and best practice principles and techniques

Proactive input to regular 1:1 weekly meeting with manager and subsequent follow-up actions and in turn 1:1 meeting with your direct reports

Carry out all required appraisal and objective setting responsibilities in line with AVEVA HR and R&D function guidelines

To Identify and communicate key risks that need to be effectively communicated upwards to management along with associated action plans to mitigation risk

Continually develop and improve DevOps processes, adding value through optimization, automation, and effective reporting

Review and provide guidance on cloud architectures from security, high availability, disaster recovery and operational effectiveness / efficiency perspectives

Provide subject matter expertise to business stakeholders as required

Maintain high quality documentation and be able to communicate effectively at all levels within the Organisation as well as with customers

Stay current on security industry trends, tools, and best practices

To give continuous attention to the team’s backlog and ensure people are allocated appropriately and in line with sprint plans

To contribute to on-going Cloud Readiness and related Operational developments in a technical capacity and to enable members of the team to engage in and steer technical direction and decision making, supported by well managed and documented advance designs

To proactively ensure that cloud solutions are delivered that conform to agreed AVEVA cloud register criteria and more general quality, design, technical and completeness guidelines, using appropriate tooling and technology

To undertake the role of Scrum master responsibilities, ensuring that projects are delivered in line with AVEVA’s use of Agile methodologies and modern tooling, promoting best practices and behaviors that produce results as needed

Required skills and experience 

Ability to learn and adapt quickly

A minimum of 12 years’ experience in Software Development and Design using modern web technologies and supporting toolsets including source control, static code analysis and CI/CD tooling

Experience of automated deployment technologies for cloud infrastructure creation and management

An on-going and active interest in modern software tools, techniques and processes and a willingness to continually modernize and improve

Highly skilled facilitator and organizer

Proven experience of managing, leading and coaching technical teams

Strong management and leadership able to manage teams based in various locations

Will challenge conventional thinking, managing risk and influencing a broad cross-section of stakeholders

Builds rapport and robust relationships as well as influencing at all levels

Resilience and resourcefulness to make change happen 

AWS and/or Azure Cloud experience. Must have a willingness to work on and learn both AWS and Azure

Strong, relevant, development background

Experience or strong motivation to focus on DevOps

Exposure to programming skills, e.g. C#, .NET

Knowledge of PowerShell or Node JS scripting

Knowledge of API, REST, microservices and serverless architecture

Certifications in Azure and/or AWS

Great skills to have

Experience with cloud infrastructure governance. For example, cross account or subscription management, setting up and configuring security, logging, or governance services

Cloud infrastructure experience, at scale - Design, Deployment, Operation

Networking experience, knowledge. DNS, HTTPS, TCP, etc

Ability to guide development teams designing cloud solutions and preparing for operations

Experience with monitoring and alerting

Full stack web development experience

Linux, and strong focus on automation, command line, scripting etc.

Experience using Docker and ideally Kubernetes

Experience as an architect

Operational experience, on-call support

Database experience - administration, development, and tuning

Hands-on experience working within an Information Security accredited framework e.g. ISO27001, 27017/18

Experience working in Agile software development such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Behaviours

Strong attention to detail, diligent and tenacious

Excellent analysis and dissemination skills

High degree of personal motivation and ability to self-manage

Maintains and develops relevant industry and technology knowledge

Strong communication skills, written and verbal

Self-sufficient, self-starter, but still a team player

Pragmatic. 

 
Key Working Relationships

R&D Cloud DevOps Directors & other CDO Managers (India, UK and US)

R&D Dev Managers / Product Owners / CDO Champions / Release Train Managers

Global Customer Support (GCS)

IT

Cloud Portfolio and its stakeholders

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment.  Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws,  include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.
 
Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.