Machine Learning Engineer Expert jobs at Sap in Kenya, Nairobi

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What you'll do

This role offers a dynamic and challenging environment where the SRE will:

• Oversee and maintain production systems and applications, ensuring stability and rapid incident resolution.
• Gain hands-on experience on designing and improving monitoring tools, troubleshoot issues, and optimize system performance.
• Manage critical incidents, analyze downtime, and support regulatory compliance.
• Utilize automation tools to streamline cloud infrastructure management and system provisioning.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies, contributing to projects that enhance system reliability and security.
• Have professional development opportunities, and a clear career growth path within a high-performing team.

What you bring

• Proactive mindset with strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to take ownership of challenges and drive solutions independently.
• Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting production systems, automation, cloud infrastructure, and incident management.
• Strong collaboration skills to work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize system performance and enhance monitoring capabilities
• Passion for system reliability, performance optimization, and continuous learning.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and contribute to high-impact projects.

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Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Security Engineer with a strong Technical Project Management/Security Service Engineering background to drive security projects from inception to completion. This role involves full lifecycle project ownership, including high-level and low-level design, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and implementation oversight. The ideal candidate will work within a multi-cloud environment, focusing on detection engineering and defensive architecture while leveraging strong expertise in network security, identity management, and SIEM solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end security projects, ensuring timely delivery across all phases, including planning, execution, and closure.
• Develop and document High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) for security solutions in a multi-cloud environment.
• Gather technical and business requirements from stakeholders and translate them into actionable security strategies.
• Drive project execution within the Service Design Framework, ensuring alignment with organizational security goals.
• Define and implement Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for effective project tracking and milestone management.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth project delivery and risk mitigation.
• Design and implement detection engineering and defensive security architectures across multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Work closely with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, and IT teams to enhance monitoring and incident response capabilities.
• Integrate and optimize network security and identity access management (IAM) solutions.
• Deploy and configure Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions to enhance threat detection and response.
• Ensure compliance with industry best practices, security frameworks, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong project management focus.
• Hands-on experience in detection engineering , defense-in-depth and multi-cloud security solutions.
• Proficiency in Network security, IAM solutions, and SIEM platforms.
• Strong understanding of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Service Design Frameworks, and security solution design.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, or Azure Security Engineer.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and drive multiple security projects simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in threat modeling and security risk assessments.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and automation in security operations.
• Hands-on experience with XDR and or SIEM tools
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture and modern identity security frameworks.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge security projects in a multi-cloud environment.
• Collaborate with top-tier cybersecurity professionals.
• Opportunities for professional growth and certification support.

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Technical competencies.

Technical languages: a minimum of 15+ years of hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, SAP HANA, Redis, SAP BTP, and the Playwright test framework. Strong conceptual clarity of OOPs.

Software Development Lifecycle: Contribute to software solutions' development, testing, and deployment under the guidance and mentorship of experienced agile engineers. Participate and contribute to the design and architecture of your component. Participate in the code reviews.

Own your deliverable: involvement in all agile phases to bring life to your code including testing.

Performance aspects: The scale comes with the responsibility. The Joule adoption has made us consider performance as the core ingredient for our production release. So this role will also focus on the performance aspects of Joule and would be the technical owner of the topic.

“The innovation mindset”
Utilize the hype around Gen AI, Business AI and Joule. You will be in the best place to work on cutting-edge technologies where things are rapidly evolving every day. Ensure you ride in the waves. Bring new ideas, concepts and prototypes in the cutting-edge technologies’ alignment with the strategy.

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