Lead DevOps Engineer

BMC Software; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,230,000 - 5,170,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, headquartered in Bengaluru, seeks an experienced SRE/DevOps leader to own reliability for large-scale SaaS products. You will drive production incident handling, postmortems, and long-term improvements, while shaping CI/CD pipelines and test automation across cloud-native systems.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in SaaS reliability, hands-on Kubernetes and IaC, and a proven leadership style with accountability for outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating SaaS products in production environments.
• Strong hands-on background in SRE, DevOps, and cloud engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience handling production incidents, rollbacks, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Design and maintain automation and integration tests for distributed cloud-native systems.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Cloud engineering

Incident response

CI/CD

Test automation

Distributed cloud-native

Kubernetes

Containers

Infrastructure as code

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the worlds largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

To ensure youre set up for success, you will bring the following skillset experience:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating SaaS products in production environments.
• Strong hands-on background in SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Demonstrated experience handling production incidents, rollbacks, postmortems, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and automated testing frameworks, with a strong bias toward test automation over manual processes.
• Proven ability to design and maintain automation and integration tests for distributed cloud-native systems.
• Experience managing multiple active versions of SaaS products in production.
• Strong debugging skills across services, infrastructure, and pipelines.
• Practical experience with containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with real production consequences.
• Direct, accountable leadership style with comfort owning operational outcomes.
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following skills:

• Prior experience with BMCs software stack and internal platforms
• Formal SRE or cloud certifications

Our commitment to you!

BMCs culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You wont be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender,gender expression,gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

At BMC we believe in pay transparency and have set the midpoint of the salary band for this role at 4,700,000 INR. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The salary listed is just one component of BMC''s employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

We are committed to ensuring that our employees are paid fairly and equitably, and that we are transparent about our compensation practices.