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.

Due to the nature of the position you must be willing to be in the Reston, VA area to be onsite at least 3 days a week in our Reston, VA office

What you ll do :

With the newly founded unit of SAP Sovereign Cloud, we are defining the future of sovereign cloud infrastructure for public sector and regulated industries with unparalleled security, flexibility, and scale.

This is where innovation meets execution and we are looking for a stellar DevOps Engineer to be part of our journey.

As a DevOps Engineer, you play a vital role in the Product Enablement team within SAP Sovereign Cloud.

Your contributions to Sovereign Cloud will be pivotal in automating, scaling, and maintaining our cloud operations at an exemplary level.

You will be responsible not only for orchestrating containerized applications using Kubernetes but also for supporting regional Sovereign Cloud teams.

This will involve demonstrating deployment techniques, assisting in troubleshooting, and providing guidance on updates and best practices.

Your key responsibilities include :

• Assist in the building out and managing deployment environments for net-new SAP products in the SAP Sovereign Cloud portfolio.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Develop and maintain automated deployment scripts and pipelines using CI / CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Support the automation of build, test, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability including troubleshooting issues in the deployment pipelines.
• Ensure consistency and version control of configuration files and deployment scripts.
• Implement tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or Splunk for monitoring and logging including monitoring system performance and assisting in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Support performance tuning and optimization efforts for SAP products.
• Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to support the integration and deployment of SAP products.
• Create and maintain documentation for deployment processes, configurations, and infrastructure.
• Proactively seek mentorship and guidance from senior engineers to enhance professional development.

What you bring :

To become highly successful, you have the following expertise :

• Profound experience with DevOps
• Experience with Python, Go, and / or Bash
• Experience in setting up, managing, and optimizing CI / CD pipelines

Your work experience is as follows :

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other relevant fields
• A minimum of 3 years in professional software development
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with DevOps

With your quality-aware mindset, you are able to proactively forge the path forward, innovatively solve any technical challenges, and strongly collaborate with other team members across the whole organization.

You are fluent in English both verbal and written.

Due to the classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to agovernmental security clearance process and thus have an EU, NATO or FIVE EYES countrymember nationality.

Meet your team

The Product Enablement team within the Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations organization is a new and powerful team of experts with the vision to enable our customers to make full use of all strategic SAP products in public sector and regulated industries.

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.