Sovereign Cloud Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. We engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality, and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP recently decided to combine and harmonize all SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, establishing an end-to-end process for the Public Sector and regulated industries. The newly created Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit is part of SAP Customer Services and Delivery, with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) within the Shared Management Services (SMS) group in the Sovereign Cloud Technology & Engineering unit of the newly formed Customer Services & Delivery board area. In this role you will become a member of the Technology and Engineering team. You will engage with existing SAP Sovereign Cloud engineering and operations experts across a globally distributed team of highly motivated engineers responsible for the design, development, deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management of the Sovereign Cloud SMS product.

You will inspire innovation and drive execution of disciplined and standardized processes and tools, address mission-critical capability gaps and opportunities for maximized efficiency. You will help identify trade-offs in deployment plans and any key day-to-day operational decisions impacting infrastructure investments significantly. You will drive and manage backup and disaster recovery drills to ensure failure readiness.

You will help the team operate and improve our existing foundation and provisioning approach, create best practices, and innovate new options for the SMS. You need to ensure the team’s knowledge base is kept consistently up-to-date with native hyperscaler capabilities and modern infrastructure management tools. You will help to understand and document existing SAP Sovereign Cloud assets and processes and design concepts for our infrastructure management on a global scale.

This will involve significant coordination with the global Sovereign Cloud operations and engineering teams, our regional teams, and our hyperscaler provider partners.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

1. Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, or engineering or equivalent experience
2. Ability to manage through ambiguities while being innovative and collaborative
3. Ability to take a technical approach to design specifications of our large-scale network
4. Strong technology skills and the willingness to learn new topics quickly
5. Strong analytical research and problem-solving skills
6. Ability to think strategically, delivering services to meet stakeholders’ demands on a timely basis
7. Knowledge of SAP and the SAP solution portfolio is a plus
8. Provision and support new and existing cloud services through Terraform
9. Strong conceptual skills paired with analytical thinking
10. Proven ability to deliver against challenging timelines
11. Strong communication and interpersonal skills
12. Strong cultural awareness and intercultural competencies
13. Ability to build trusted relationships
14. Persistence, self-motivation, and willingness to work under pressure
15. English (fluent), German is a plus

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1. Very good understanding of cloud infrastructure related topics
2. Minimum 5 years of experience developing, managing, or deploying technical infrastructure at a global scale on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP is a plus
3. Thorough understanding of infrastructure firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, IAM, etc. and experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution
4. Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with infrastructure, application, or database migration
5. Working knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD tools, and GIT is required
6. Understanding of security technologies e.g., CAs, mTLS, oAuth, SSO Proxy, IDP, LDAP, TLS, PKI, WAF
7. Working knowledge of managing Kubernetes environments
8. Experience with delivering products on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP is a plus
9. Experience with Sovereign Cloud or Gaia-X concepts is a plus
10. Experience with infrastructure management of SAP solutions is a plus

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Requisition ID: 401572 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time or Part-Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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