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Job Name
Lead DevOps Engineer - USA
Country
United States
State
NA
Date Published
17-Sep-2025
Job ID
45744
Travel
up to 10%
Additional Locations
Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington - San Antonio - El Paso
This role can be based remotely in United States 
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Description and Requirements

CareerArc Code
CA-OG
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Hybrid: #LI-Hybrid

"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!" 



We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud!  


We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation! 
Our SaaS Ops department focuses on delivering SaaS excellence and a great SaaS experience for our customers. We continuously grow by adding and implementing the most cutting-edge technologies and investing in Innovation! Our team is a global and versatile group of professionals, so if you’re looking for a place where your ideas will be heard – this is the place for you!



Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer – Kafka & OpenSearch

The Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer – Kafka & OpenSearch will drive the strategic design, automation, and operations of large-scale data platform services, with a strong emphasis on event streaming (Kafka) and search/analytics (OpenSearch). This role involves building resilient, scalable pipelines, managing infrastructure with modern DevOps practices, and ensuring the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of mission-critical systems. You will partner with global engineering, database, and platform teams to deliver automation, observability, and orchestration frameworks that support enterprise-wide data services. As a lead contributor, you’ll tackle complex challenges, guide technical direction for Kafka and OpenSearch services, and align DevOps strategies with business objectives and organizational goals.

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

  • Architect and manage scalable Kafka and OpenSearch clusters for low-latency streaming, log analytics, and enterprise search
  • Define and implement patterns for scaling, replication, retention, disaster recovery, and cost optimization across distributed environments
  • Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitOps to provision, patch, and upgrade hybrid cloud platforms
  • Design CI/CD workflows that support streaming pipelines and search services, including schema management and data ingestion automation
  • Deploy and orchestrate Kafka and OpenSearch on Kubernetes using Helm and operators, ensuring resilience, elasticity, and multi-tenancy
  • Build observability frameworks with logging, metrics, and alerting to monitor Kafka brokers, consumers, and OpenSearch nodes, supporting 99.99% uptime SLAs
  • Enforce security and compliance through RBAC, encryption, vulnerability patching, auditing, and certificate automation
  • Mentor engineers on distributed data best practices while driving initiatives to reduce operational overhead and align platform strategies with business goals

To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, and distributed systems
  • Deep expertise in Kafka, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud infrastructure
  • Strong skills in automation using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitOps workflows
  • Proven ability to design scalable data platforms and CI/CD pipelines for streaming and search
  • Experience implementing observability, security, and compliance for mission-critical systems
  • Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and driving cross-team collaboration
  • Creative problem-solver with a track record of building innovative frameworks and reducing operational overhead

Candidates must have US citizenship and the ability to obtain a security clearance

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Our commitment to you! 

 

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU! 

 

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas! 

 

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.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. 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 range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $129,375 - $215,625

Min salary
129,375

Our commitment to you! 

 

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU! 

 

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas! 

 

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.

Mid point salary
172,500
Max salary
215,625
Min Salary - NEW
129,375
Max Salary - NEW
215,625