Senior DevOps Engineer

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. 

***** Due to the potentially classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process *****

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. That is why 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 Board area Customer Serivces & Delivery with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP. Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations is collaborating closely with all Board areas to establish a harmonized, scalable, and consistent offering with transparent and standardized deliverables. 

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

We are looking for an Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) within the Sustained Engineering unit of the newly formed Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations team in the Customer Services & Delivery board area, focused on the Sovereign Cloud deployment of SAP SuccessFactors (HCM).

In this role, you will join the Multi-Tenant Engineering team: We own, build, and harden, the internal SAP Sovereign Cloud environments used as reference by the regional Operations teams. You will build the automation deployment that will deliver SAP SuccessFactors (HCM) applications to SAP Sovereign Cloud customers aiming at functional completeness, streamlined deployments, and smooth operation. You will be working closely with technical product managers, engineers, and architects with a focus on HCM applications. You will have the opportunity to solve the intricate challenges of scale and security which are unique to SAP Sovereign Cloud. You will be the subject matter expert of the Sovereign Cloud HCM environment setup, leveraging your functional & technical expertise, complexity analysis, and stakeholder management. You will engage closely with regional Operations colleagues, Security, QA, as well as the other Sovereign Cloud Engineering teams. You will drive the end-to-end deployment of product capabilities - from defining implementation concepts, to performing functional & technical assessments, hardening, ultimately culminating in automated deployments for customer adoption.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field
• Professional experience in Cloud Delivery related fields and technologies
• In-depth knowledge of hyperscalers like AWS required
• Very good understanding of deployment automation and the tools e.g. Ansible, Chef
• Experience with
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform preferred
• CI/CD pipelines e.g. ArgoCD (preferred), GitLab CI/CD (preferred), Jenkins
• Monitoring e.g. Dynatrace, CloudWatch
• Logging e.g. Splunk (preferred), Elasticsearch, Logstash
• Cloud Networking tools e.g. AWS VPCs (preferred), VNet, Google VPC
• In-depth experience in technologies used for deploying and managing Cloud-native applications (e.g. microservices):
• Container Orchestration tools e.g. Gardener (preferred), Kubernetes, Docker
• Helm charts
• Repository management e.g. Artifactory (preferred), JFrog (preferred
• Service management tools e.g. Cons