AI Agent Developer

About this opportunity:

We’re hiring an AI Agent Developer to help design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes‑based systems and internal developer tooling. You’ll partner with product managers, designers, SREs, and cross‑functional teams to turn product goals into reliable, secure, and maintainable platform services. You’ll own components from design through deployment and run them in production.

What you will do:

• Architect, design, implement, test, and ship production‑grade services and automation using cloud‑native patterns (Kubernetes, containers, GitOps).
• Build and maintain microservices, REST APIs with emphasis on performance, reliability, security, and operational simplicity.
• Author and maintain Kubernetes artifacts — manifests, Helm charts, Operators/CRDs — to automate lifecycle management.
• Mentor and coach junior/mid engineers; contribute to hiring, onboarding, and knowledge sharing.

The skills you bring:

• 5+ years professional software development experience (or equivalent).
• Strong proficiency in Python (3.x) with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django to build production services, libraries, and automation.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (deployments, services, RBAC, networking, storage).
• Hands on AI Agent Development.
• Familiarity with GenAI libraries and frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAi).
• Strong understanding of cloud and container security best practices (image scanning, secrets management, network policies).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, problem solving, and mentoring skills.
• Technical expectations in Backend, API design, Containerization technologies to shape and operate a modern cloud-native platform.

Nice‑to‑have:

• Experience developing Kubernetes Operators (Go or Python) and working directly with the Kubernetes API/controller patterns.
• Familiarity with service meshes (Istio etc).
• Background in SRE, platform engineering, or building developer self‑service platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps tooling and pipeline authoring (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD/Flux).
• Knowledge in Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry etc.

Key Qualifications:

• Education: B.E, BTech, MCA or Similar
• Minimum years of relevant Experience: 3 to 5+ years for Developer and Senior Roles
• Location: Chennai

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you´ll not be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

What happens once you apply?

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Diversity & Inclusion:

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Learn more.

Key skills/competency:

• AI Agent Development
• Python
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• REST APIs
• Cloud-native
• Microservices
• Backend Development
• GenAI
• Software Development