DevOps Engineer, Principal

Blackbaud; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackbaud in Hyderabad, India seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer (Site Reliability) to advance our cloud platforms supporting web applications with DevSecOps practices.

Required: 8+ years automating Linux/RedHat, Azure cloud, and scripting (Python/Ansible/Terraform); experience building high‑availability, 24x7 environments and on‑call readiness. Join a team driving secure, scalable software for the nonprofit sector.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience automating Linux/RedHat environments.
• 8+ years of experience with web technologies (JavaScript, Java, HTML, AJAX) or equivalent OO languages.
• 8+ years of cloud experience (Microsoft Azure) and SAAS/PAAS/IAAS understanding.
• Experience building high-performance, 24x7 environments and secure code.

Responsibilities

• Build automation leveraging CI/CD, automated testing, and code coverage.
• Develop reusable automation scripts, libraries, services, and tools.
• Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities.
• Drive operational excellence by reducing risk, cost, and waste.
• Define technical direction with stakeholders and drive innovative solutions.
• Lead architectural design, documentation, and validation.
• Design applications with cost-aware mechanisms while delighting clients.

Skills

Linux/RedHat automation

Web technologies

Azure cloud

High availability

Automation scripting

24x7 on-call

Secure coding practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Perl

Job description

About the role:

As a Principal DevOps Engineer focused on Site Reliability within Cloud Delivery Engineering (CDE), you will contribute to the development of our solution delivery platforms supporting our web-based applications on the latest cloud technologies within a DevSecOps culture. You will have the opportunity to utilize automation technologies and private/public cloud technologies to provide world‑class solutions that serve the non-profit industry.

What you'll do:

• Build automation leveraging CI/CD processes, automated testing, unit testing, code coverage and other software development best practices
• Contribute to reusable automation scripts, libraries, services, and tools to increase system and process efficiencies
• Partnering with the security teams and tools to continually review and understand new industry security threats, associated technologies and quickly addressing vulnerabilities
• Pursue opportunities to further operational excellence by increasing efficiency and reducing risk, complexity, waste and cost
• Partner with key stakeholders to establish technical direction and negotiate technical decision points to drive innovative solutions
• Drive technical design, documentation, and validation, while ensuring implementation aligns with our technical strategies and strategic business goals
• Develop architectural designs for applications building something to delight clients while managing costs to deliver these applications

What you'll bring:

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.

• 8+ years of experience leveraging automation to manage Linux systems and infrastructure, specifically RedHat
• 8+ years of experience with common web technologies required – Javascript, Java, HTML, AJAX or other equivalent Object‑Oriented language
• 8+ years of experience in the implementation of cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure) and an understanding of SAAS, PAAS, and IAAS models
• Experience building high performance, scalable, robust, 24x7 environments and/or applications
• Experience creating scripts or automation, such as Perl, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Python, Terraform, or similar for cloud orchestration required
• Available on a 24x7x365 basis when needed for production impacting incidents or key customer events
• Ability to create quality code that is secure and operable at scale

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Blackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the world's leading cloud software company powering social good. Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare institutions and individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers organizations to increase their impact through software, services, expertise, and data intelligence.

The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer‑to‑peer fundraising, corporate social responsibility, school management, ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing, and analytics.

Serving the industry for more than three decades, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.