Expert DevOps Engineer

We help the world run better

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. How? 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.

We are seeking an Expert DevOps Engineer to join our rapidly growing technology team. The successful candidate should have a minimum of 15 years of experience in a similar role, with a deep proficiency in managing cloud infrastructure and services. The candidate must be adept at using Git, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Knowledge in deploying SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and familiarity with Kafka, Hadoop, and Cassandra are considered significant pluses. The candidate should be passionate about automation, system efficiency, and security. The individual in this role will be our guiding force in designing, automating, and optimizing scalable systems, and will solve complex system issues.

**Responsibilities:**

1. Lead the development, maintenance, and improvement of our continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using cloud services and automation tools.

2. Use Terraform for advanced cloud resource provisioning and management.

3. Implement automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, monitoring.

4. Design and implement enterprise-grade, scalable cloud-based services to support our development teams.

5. Collaborate with developers to optimize the application development workflow.

6. Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide advanced technical support to the team.

7. Advocate for and implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.

8. Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes.

9. If necessary, deploy and maintain SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) in cloud environments.

10. Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel.

**Requirements:**

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent work experience.

2. 10+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.

3. Expert proficiency with Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, and other infrastructure automation toolsets.

4. Deep expertise with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and an in-depth understanding of their offerings.

5. Significant experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.

6. Proven ability to lead and improve software-automation production systems.

7. Exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

8. Comprehensive understanding of scalable computing systems.

9. Excellent communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.

**Nice to Have:**

1. Experience with deploying and maintaining SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

2. Advanced knowledge of distributed data processing systems such as Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra.

3. Certification in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

4. Expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash.

At our company, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

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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. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: | Work Area:Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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