{"id":1021072,"url":"https://alion.io/job/qualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability","title":"Senior Lead Engineer – Cloud Platform, DevOps & Site Reliability","company":{"id":94,"name":"Qualcomm","domain":"qualcomm.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/qualcomm","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":72,"open_postings":1182,"ghost_share":0.22,"stale_share":0.121,"repost_share":0.468,"time_to_fill_p50_days":75,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":25000,"max_usd":72000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":12},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"Bicep","optional":false},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Istio","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linkerd","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Pulumi","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"Rest-Assured","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-24T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T00:06:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":55,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":55},"description":"Company:\nQualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:\nEngineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringGeneral Summary:\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a highly experienced and technically strong Senior Lead Engineer - Cloud Platform, DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to drive the architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical cloud services within the IoT organization.\nIn this role, you will lead the design and operation of large-scale distributed systems, drive modernization initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and establish engineering best practices across multiple teams. You will partner with development, quality engineering, product management, and operations teams to build highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-native platforms.\nThe ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, observability, automation, infrastructure as code, incident management, and production operations, with a proven track record of leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nProvide technical leadership and architectural guidance for highly scalable cloud-native platforms and services.\nDrive strategic initiatives focused on reliability, performance, security, automation, and operational excellence.\nLead design reviews, architecture discussions, and technology evaluations.\nMentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, fostering engineering excellence and best practices.\nPartner with stakeholders to define long-term platform and infrastructure roadmaps.\nCloud & Platform Engineering\nArchitect, develop, and operate cloud infrastructure across Azure and/or AWS environments.\nDefine infrastructure standards and governance through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).\nLead cloud migration, modernization, and platform optimization initiatives.\nEnsure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational requirements.\nOptimize cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps principles and resource governance.\nDevOps & Automation\nDrive CI/CD strategy and platform engineering initiatives across multiple products.\nBuild and maintain secure, scalable, and automated deployment pipelines.\nPromote automation-first approaches for infrastructure provisioning, remediation, testing, and operational workflows.\nChampion GitOps, configuration management, and infrastructure automation practices.\nReliability, Performance & Scalability\nLead capacity planning, scalability assessments, performance benchmarking, and load testing activities.\nDrive root cause analysis and preventive actions for production issues.\nConduct chaos engineering exercises to improve system resilience.\nEstablish performance and reliability standards across engineering teams.\nCollaboration & Communication\nWork closely with engineering leadership, architects, product teams, and customers to align technology solutions with business objectives.\nCommunicate technical strategies, risks, operational status, and recommendations to senior leadership.\nInfluence organizational best practices for cloud operations, security, and software delivery.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.\n8+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience.\n5+ years of experience leading large-scale cloud platform or infrastructure initiatives.\nDemonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and driving technical strategy.\nTechnical Requirements\nCloud Technologies\nExpert-level experience with Azure and/or AWS.\nDeep understanding of compute, networking, storage, identity, security, high availability, and disaster recovery.\nExperience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.\nContainerization & Platform Engineering\nStrong expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and cloud-native ecosystems.\nExperience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.\nExperience building multi-cluster and multi-region deployment architectures.\nInfrastructure as Code & Automation\nHands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation.\nStrong automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.\nExperience implementing GitOps using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.\nCI/CD & DevOps\nExtensive experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.\nExpertise in deployment automation, release management, and software delivery pipelines.\nStrong understanding of SDLC, DevSecOps, and shift-left practices.\nObservability & Reliability\nExpertise in monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog.\nExperience defining and implementing SLI/SLO frameworks.\nStrong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational excellence mindset.\nSystems & Networking\nStrong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.\nDeep understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, load balancing, CDN, network security, and distributed systems.\nExperience with large-scale production environments supporting mission-critical workloads.\nDatabases & Distributed Systems\nExperience with relational and NoSQL databases.\nKnowledge of distributed systems design, scalability patterns, caching, messaging, and event-driven architectures.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working in large-scale SaaS, IoT, Telecom, CPS, or distributed cloud platforms.\nExperience building highly available global services supporting millions of users/devices.\nKnowledge of FinOps methodologies and cloud cost optimization.\nExperience with security compliance frameworks and cloud governance.\nAzure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS Professional, Kubernetes (CKA/CKS), or equivalent certifications.\nExperience driving platform modernization and engineering transformation initiatives.\nLeadership Expectations\nServe as a technical leader and trusted advisor across the organization.\nDrive engineering excellence, innovation, and operational maturity.\nInfluence architecture and technology strategy across multiple programs.\nDevelop and mentor future technical leaders.\nChampion reliability, scalability, automation, and customer-first engineering culture.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related experience.\nOR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related experience.\n5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or similar.\n5+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native distributed systems.\nProven ability to lead technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.\n• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nIf you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9361,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Processors, MCUs & AI Chips","Autonomous Driving","RF & Wireless Hardware","Car Electronics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-18T05:50:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":48,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.793,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":54,"expected_fill_days":75,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:late","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T01:09:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1917,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":94},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=94"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fqualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fqualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fqualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/qualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fqualcomm-senior-lead-engineer-cloud-platform-devops-site-reliability"}]}