Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

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.

Our DevOps Team is at the heart of Black Duck's mission to secure and accelerate software development. We are a group of dedicated professionals who are passionate about integrating security seamlessly into the DevOps pipeline. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining the platforms that enable continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous security.

Key responsibilities:   

As a Senior Staff Engineer in the DevOps Platform Team at Black Duck, you will tackle diverse projects using cutting-edge technologies. You will shape product direction and collaborate across teams to bring innovative ideas to life. 

• Develop, maintain, and optimize SaaS products using modern technologies and coding languages 

• Ensure the delivery of secure, efficient, and resilient cloud-based platforms through agile development practices 

• Design, build, and extend our internal developer portal, tailoring the platform to meet the needs of our engineering teams 

• Provide guidance and tooling to develop micro-services on a Kubernetes-based platform 

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for micro-service-based workloads 

• Implement actionable monitoring solutions for cloud platforms and applications to ensure reliability and performance 

• Respond to operational incidents to maintain platform stability 

• Execute infrastructure and platform projects from inception to production 

• Improve products iteratively, research new methods, and communicate effectively 

• Contribute to a collaborative team culture, demonstrating autonomy and a strong sense of ownership 

 Key Requirements (qualifications): 

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with graduate-level continued education or equivalent experience 

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering roles 

• Proficiency with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP 

• Familiarity with Backstage, including platform customization and plugin development 

• Experience developing cloud-native CI/CD workflows using tools like GitHub Actions 

• Hands-on experience with provisioning infrastructure using Terraform 

• Expertise in designing, implementing, and automating application deployments to Kubernetes 

• Experience building observability systems for log aggregation, analytics, monitoring, distributed systems tracing, and alerting 

• Hands-on experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD, Flux, and Flagger 

• Working knowledge of programming in Go, Node.js, Python, or equivalent, and shell scripting 

• Experience with Git, JIRA, and Confluence or equivalent tools 

• Working knowledge of service mesh, API gateway, and proxies, databases 

• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex issues creatively and practically, and to drive teams in technical design and implementation 

What’s nice to have (preferred qualifications): 

• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall 

• Developer experience on Kubernetes 

• Knowledge of progressive delivery; canary deployments and feature flags 

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.