R&D Principal Technologist

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: R&D Principal Technologist

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: full-time

The job

This role owns the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure—from successful production deployments to ongoing environment maintenance, health, and operational excellence—while maintaining proactive stakeholder communication and supporting broader delivery coordination across teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own production deployment execution for cloud infrastructure changes across AWS/Azure.
• Coordinate deployment readiness checks (approvals, dependencies, rollback plans, change windows).
• Lead go-live activities and confirm successful production implementation.
• Monitor cloud environment health, performance, alerts, and resource utilization post-deployment.
• Manage ongoing maintenance activities: patches, updates, security hardening, and configuration optimizations.
• Maintain environment stability through proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting oversight.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, identify root causes, and coordinate remediation with teams.
• Optimize cloud resource allocation, scaling policies, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain deployment and operational logs, reports, and stakeholder communication records.
• Support execution planning across multiple workstreams, including milestone tracking, risk/dependency management, and status reporting.
• Help align teams on priorities, timelines, and delivery commitments to ensure smooth initiative execution.

Essential requirements

• Experience managing production cloud deployments and ongoing environment operations in AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Ability to manage cross-team coordination under tight timelines.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills (written, verbal, and leadership updates).
• Strong risk management, incident escalation, and follow-through discipline.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and cloud operations.
• Experience supporting delivery governance, cross-functional planning, and execution tracking.
• Comfortable troubleshooting and supporting operational issues in production environments.

Desired skills and competencies

10+ years of experience with at least 5+ years of experience on above mentioned key responsibilities.

Knowledge on Cloud platform services, preferable AWS/Azure

Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, IaC, and cloud operations.

R&D at AVEVA

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the center of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke – it’s the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us.

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/r-and-d-careers/

India Benefits include:

Gratuity, Medical and accidental insurance, very attractive leave entitlement, emergency leave days, childcare support, maternity, paternity and adoption leaves, education assistance program, home office set up support (for hybrid roles), well-being support

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/benefits/

Hybrid working

By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. 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 are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/

Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and 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.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.