Sr. DevOps Engineer

BMC Software; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,889,000 - 3,919,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software in Pune leads cloud-native SaaS production systems, focusing on reliability, scalability, and automated quality across versions and environments. This hands-on senior role requires ownership of production incidents, rollbacks, and rapid delivery with automation at its core.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, automate testing, and contribute to infrastructure-as-code initiatives while aligning with SRE practices and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating SaaS products in production.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive rollback strategies, release validation, and version management for complex, continuously deployed SaaS systems.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with strong automated test coverage at unit, integration, system, and end-to-end levels.
• Establish automation-first practices for environment provisioning, test execution, deployment, monitoring, and recovery.
• Lead debugging and troubleshooting efforts for distributed systems in production, partnering closely with development teams.
• Build and evolve cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Champion SRE principles: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience testing, and operational metrics.
• Act as the point of accountability for production health, escalating risks early and driving corrective action.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Automation Testing

Infrastructure as Code

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

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.

Sr. DevOps Engineering New Products (Data Agentic Platforms)

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and scale cloud-native SaaS production systems with a strong focus on Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE and Automation Testing. Based in Pune, this role will own the technical execution and operational excellence of multiple SaaS services running in production, including responsibility for reliability, scalability, release safety, and automated quality across versions and environments.

This is a hands-on Individual contributor role for a proven operator. You will be responsible for keeping SaaS platforms stable while moving fast, owning production incidents, rollbacks, debugging complex distributed failures, and building the automation needed to reduce risk and manual effort. You will work closely with Product Engineering and Platform teams to ensure high-quality, continuously delivered software.

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC''s and your own success:

• Drive rollback strategies, release validation, and version management for complex, continuously deployed SaaS systems.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines with strong automated test coverage at unit, integration, system, and end-to-end levels.
• Establish automation-first practices for environment provisioning, test execution, deployment, monitoring, and recovery.
• Lead debugging and troubleshooting efforts for distributed systems in production, partnering closely with development teams.
• Build and evolve cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Champion SRE principles: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience testing, and operational metrics.
• Act as the point of accountability for production health, escalating risks early and driving corrective action.

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

• 8+ 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.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

At BMC we believe in pay transparency and have set the midpoint of the salary band for this role at 3,398,800 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.