Senior Developer - GO Lang, Kubernetes, Core Infrastructure Team - Gardener (BTP)

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What you'll do

We are looking for experienced developers to join us and contribute towards our open-source initiative - Project Gardener [https://gardener.cloud].  As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible in shaping the future of SAP Business Technology Platform, which is the underlay for all SAP Cloud solutions.

• With the core work centred around our Kubernetes Cluster service offering, you will be responsible for the following activities:
• Managing machine/nodes of the cluster across different cloud providers via machine controller manager and driving the community to adopt it for different providers like AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Building a highly available etc., with multi-node deployment and backup-restore capabilities to ensure cloud native service and applications to run on top.
• Optimizing the control plane of a Kubernetes cluster by creating innovative designs to manage resources and through resource utilization like CPU / Memory / Disk and n/wing components.
• Guiding/evangelizing the open-source community in consuming Gardener by presenting your work in conferences like KubeCon and others local meetups.

What you bring

• 5+ years of relevant experience with Masters / bachelor’s in computer science from IITs, IISc, NIT’s
• Strong knowledge and grasp of one programming language (Go preferred). Hand's on experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and GIT.
• Experience on infrastructure layers provided by one or more hyper scalar like (AWS/Azure/GCP/Open stack/VMware etc.,) is added advantage.
• Experience contributing to system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems to consume the best fit for a given problem..
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux internals.
• Passionate about analytical and problem-solving skills to apply the right patterns to the domain.

Meet your team

Together with your team, you will work on the SAP product. If you are passionate about system engineering and enjoy developing distributed systems at scale, we have some unique and complex challenges that can help enhance your learning in this domain. With this role, you are not limited to only contributing to the solution but will be allowed to take ownership in driving the tasks until adoption. You will help shape the solution in conjunction with contributors from SAP and the open-source community that consumes Gardener. We emphasize teamwork and open source working culture of consumption, trust and contributing back to the community.

The Kubernetes core team is adopting the Kubernetes open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized SAP solutions and business applications. Evolving and enhancing SAP’s open-source project “Gardener” https://gardener.cloud as SAP’s way to provide a homogeneous and universal Kubernetes-based container management is the key deliverable of this team, in close collaboration with the other teams in other SAP locations. Project “Gardener” provides solutions to run and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on public cloud, hybrid or SAP owned infrastructures for a variety of enterprise use cases.

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Requisition ID: 389055  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.