Prodops Engineer 4

Black Duck Software, Inc.
Bangalore, India
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior production operations professionals with experience in incident leadership and automation who can work in a 24/7 hybrid environment in Bangalore.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 9+ years in production operations and proven incident leadership in customer-facing systems
    — “Proven experience leading major production incidents in customer‑facing systems.”
  • Individuals skilled in cloud environments and distributed systems with a focus on reliability
    — “Strong background in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.”
  • Candidates who can standardize processes and mentor others in a high-stakes production environment
    — “Provide technical leadership and mentorship to ProdOps engineers.”

Things to consider

  • This role requires on-call availability including night shifts and weekends
    — “24/7 Rotational shifts (Including Night Shifts & Weekend On-Call)”
  • The position demands a high level of communication for customer-facing incident management
    — “Handle customer-facing communications during incidents.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in reducing MTTR and MTTA with automation or process improvements
    — “Improve MTTR, MTTA, alert quality, and operational stability.”
  • Demonstrate leadership in guiding teams during complex incidents or shift handovers
    — “Guide shift teams during complex situations.”
  • Showcase your ability to write and review operational automation scripts
    — “Write and review operational automation using Go / Python / Shell / Perl.”
  • Emphasize your background in standardizing runbooks and SOPs for production systems
    — “Own and standardize runbooks, SOPs, and disaster recovery processes.”
  • Demonstrate your experience in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
    — “Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, Loki”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • improved MTTR
  • reduced toil
  • standardized runbooks
Typical background
production operationsSREcloud reliability

Skills & requirements

Required

Production OperationsIncident ManagementMonitoringRoot Cause AnalysisAutomationScripting

Preferred

ContainersOrchestrationCloud PlatformsInfrastructure As CodeCI/CDMonitoring And ObservabilityVersion Control

Stack & domain

Production OperationsSRECloud ReliabilityDockerKubernetesHelmAWSGCPAzureTerraformJenkinsHarnessGithub ActionsArgocdGitlab CIPrometheusGrafanaELKDatadogNew RelicLokiGitGitHubGitLabGoPythonShellPerlIncident ManagementMonitoringSite ReliabilityCustomer-facing CommunicationsAutomationRoot Cause AnalysisOperational MaturityDevSecOpsSoftware Development Life Cycle

About the role

Original posting from Black Duck Software, Inc. via Greenhouse

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Production Operations Engineer 4 – P4 (ProdOps / SRE) 

Location: Bangalore – Hybrid 

Experience: 9-12 years 

Shift: 24/7 Rotational shifts (Including Night Shifts & Weekend On-Call) 

About the Role 

The Production Operations Engineer will support and stabilize large-scale production systems with a focus on incident management, monitoring, site reliability, and customer-facing communications. This is a hands-on role requiring ownership of critical production issues in a 24/7 environment. 

Key Responsibilities 

Own and manage Critical and High production incidents end-to-end. 

Participate in SWARM / Tech Bridge calls and lead incidents during assigned shifts. 

Improve MTTR, MTTA, alert quality, and operational stability. 

Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive corrective actions. 

Monitor production systems and proactively detect issues. 

Automate operational tasks using Go, Python, Shell, or Perl. 

Maintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and SOPs. 

Handle customer-facing communications during incidents. 

Coordinate with Engineering, Product, CloudOps, and Support teams. 

Guide junior engineers and support shift handovers. 

Lead automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual intervention.  

Write and review operational automation using Go / Python / Shell / Perl.  

Act as a technical reviewer for reliability‑critical changes.  

Influence architecture decisions with operability and reliability in mind.  

Own and standardize runbooks, SOPs, and disaster recovery processes. 

Leadership & Mentorship 

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to ProdOps engineers. 

Guide shift teams during complex situations. 

Support onboarding, training, and upskilling of team members. 

Drive operational maturity across the team. 

Tech Stack & Expertise 

Required Technologies 

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm 

Cloud Platforms: AWS / GCP / Azure 

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform 

CI/CD: Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI 

Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, Loki 

Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab 

Scripting: Go or Python or Shell or Perl 

Qualifications 

9+ years of experience in Production Operations, SRE, or Cloud Reliability roles. 

Proven experience leading major production incidents in customer‑facing systems. 

Strong background in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. 

Experience mentoring engineers and driving reliability initiatives. 

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

What We Offer 

An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative team. 

Inclusive and collaborative work environment. 

Continuous learning and professional development opportunities. 

Exposure to large-scale and customer-critical systems. 

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

Source: Black Duck Software, Inc. careers (Greenhouse)

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