SAP NS2 Senior Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Engineer - Virtual

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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. 

 

 

COMPANY DESCRIPTION 

SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services, and SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers. 

 

Must be a U.S. Person; NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorship for this role.

All internals must have manager’s approval to transfer.

 

Our Cloud Infrastructure DevOps team plays a pivotal role in designing and deploying robust infrastructure solutions to support SAP products and services. We are an automation-first organization, prioritizing the deployment of all our cloud resources via automation to enhance efficiency and consistency. Our engineers collaborate closely with internal product teams and customer-facing units to deliver adaptable and scalable code that meets the requirements of our diverse clientele. Candidates will have the opportunity to work across various cloud providers using a wide range of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling and practices, developing provider-agnostic solutions that ensure seamless functionality across different platforms. Our infrastructure supports a broad client base, including local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as private sector organizations engaged in government-related missions.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write, modify, run terraform from an existing codebase to deploy and maintain infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers.  Be able to debug errors when deploying terraform
• Run ansible playbooks to manage customer infrastructure.  Be able to modify and troubleshoot ansible as needed as errors occur
• Use GitLab with multiple repositories to maintain customer infrastructure and create merge requests for changes to customer infrastructure.
• Configure, build, and deploy containerized services using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Access traffic flow data between customer and hosted environments to troubleshoot connectivity issues
• Produce and maintain technical documentation in regard to network and system design and governance.
• Develop standard operating procedures, knowledge base articles, technical bulletins, and other documents in support of the infrastructure.
• Operate in a security-first mindset, performing all other responsibilities with security in mind
• Implement monitoring, config management, and logging capabilities to manage a multiple tenant cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers.
• Use generative AI elements to increase efficiency and speed, improve accuracy and consistency, enhance security, and better manage resources where practical and within security boundary guidelines

 

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Knowledge of AWS foundational technologies (EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, VPC)
• Knowledge of Azure foundational technologies (Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, Storage Account, Virtual Machines,  Load Balancer, Resource Groups)
• Knowledge of GCP foundational technologies (Projects, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC)
• Proficient in using Terraform to build modules for deploying applications in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Proficient in a CI/CD technology
• Proficient in a scripting or programming language for automation (bash, python)
• Experience with RBAC design and provisioning for users
• Investigation skills to review detailed Infrastructure and configurations
• Experience with logging and log processing in a cloud environment
• Working knowledge of networking: ip routing, subnetting, network troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux OS skills - deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of Jira

Minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. 
• 5-8+ years of experience with the following technologies:  
• Python, Terraform, Ansible, Concourse CI/CD, Vault, Identify Management 
• Experience with Unix / Linux operating system internals and administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls, hardenin