SAP Sovereign Cloud Senior DevOps Engineer f/m/d 

Germany, Baden-Württemberg 

496040110

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

In this role you will become a member of the Technology and Engineering team. You will be engaging with existing SAP Sovereign Cloud engineering and operations experts across a globally distributed team of highly motivated engineers responsible for the design, development, deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management of the Sovereign Cloud SMS product.

You will inspire innovation and drive execution of disciplined and standardized processes and tools, address mission-critical capability gaps and opportunities for maximized efficiency. You will help identify trade-offs in deployment plans and any key day-to-day operational decisions impacting infrastructure investments significantly. You will drive and manage backup and disaster recovery drills to ensure failure readiness.

You will help the team to operate and improve our existing foundation and provisioning approach, create best practices, and innovate new options for the SMS. You need to ensure the team’s knowledge base is kept consistently up-to-date with native hyperscaler capabilities and modern infrastructure management tools. In order to do so, you will help to understand and document existing SAP Sovereign Cloud assets and processes. Starting from this status quo, you will design concepts for our infrastructure management on the global scale.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Due to the classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process and thus have an EU, NATO or FIVE EYES country member nationality or residency. Besides that, you bring:

· Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, or engineering or equivalent experience

· Ability to manage through ambiguities while being innovative and collaborative

· Ability to take a technical approach to design specifications of our large-scale network

· Strong technology skills and the willingness to learn new topics quickly

· Strong analytical research and problem-solving skills

· Ability to think strategically, delivering services to meet stakeholders’ demands on a timely basis

· Knowledge of SAP and the SAP solution portfolio is a plus

· Provision and support new and existing cloud services through Terraform

· Strong conceptual skills paired with analytical thinking

· Proven ability to deliver against challenging timelines

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills

· Strong cultural awareness and intercultural competencies

· Ability to build trusted relationships

· Creative, can-do, positive attitude

· Proven ability to deliver against challenging timelines

· Persistence, self-motivation, and willingness to work under pressure

· English (fluent), German is a plus

WORK EXPERIENCE

· Very good understanding of cloud infrastructure related topics

· Minimum 5 years of experience developing, managing, or deploying technical infrastructure at a global scale on Azure, AWS and/or GCP is a plus

· Thorough understanding of infrastructure firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, IAM etc. and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution

· Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with infrastructure, application or database migration

· Working knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD tools and GIT is required

· Understanding of security technologies e.g., CAs, mTLS, oAuth, SSO Proxy, IDP, LDAP, TLS, PKI, WAF

· Working knowledge of managing Kubernetes environments

· Experience with delivering products on Azure, AWS and/or GCP is a plus

· Experience with Sovereign Cloud or Gaia-X concepts is a plus

· Experience with infrastructure management of SAP solutions is a plus