DevOps Engineer

 We help the world run better

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.

 The Role

We seek a passionate and talented DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team at SAP’s Cloud Security organization. In this role, you’ll be the guardian of our systems' health, ensuring that our Identity and Access Management infrastructure is resilient, secure, and always available. You'll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the systems that keep our services running smoothly, even in the face of unforeseen challenges. Your work will directly impact millions of users and businesses worldwide. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference. 

What you’ll do

• Ensure High Availability: Design and implement fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable systems. You’ll be the one who makes sure our services are always up and running.
• Automate Everything: Develop tools that reduce manual effort and streamline processes, from deployments to incident management. You believe in automating repetitive tasks to focus on what truly matters.
• Monitor & Respond: Proactively monitor the health of our systems, identify potential issues before they become problems, and respond quickly to incidents when they occur. Your ability to troubleshoot in high-pressure situations will be crucial.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement. You’ll work closely with development teams to optimize code and infrastructure for better efficiency and speed.
• Collaborate & Educate: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to foster a culture of reliability. You’ll share your knowledge and help others build more reliable systems.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead by researching and implementing the latest technologies and best practices in site reliability engineering. You’ll be encouraged to experiment, innovate, and continuously improve our systems.

What you bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline that provides a solid background in software development.

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline and 3+ years of experience in a similar SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering role, with a strong background in software engineering.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in cloud technologies (Cloud Foundry, NGINX), application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Grafana), infrastructure as code (Jenkins, GitHub), relational databases (PostgreSQL), and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Problem Solver: You thrive on solving complex problems and can think independently. You’re not just fixing issues - you’re building solutions that prevent them.
• Team Player: Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You can work seamlessly with cross-functional teams and are always ready to lend a helping hand.
• Passionate & Driven: You’re passionate about technology and reliability. You’re constantly learning and looking for ways to improve yourself and the systems you manage.
• Communication Skills: Fluency in both written and spoken English  

Tech you bring

• Basic bash/python knowledge
• Experience in virtualization/containerization technologies such as Docker would be a plus
• Basic knowledge of monitoring tools such as ELK and/or Dynatrace

Meet your team

Enabling developers, business users, and ecosystem partners to build and integrate business applications and run them on a trusted, enterprise-grade business platform is our mission at SAP Business Technology Platform, ensuring our customers gain business-critical insights from data and drive continuous business innovation to deliver next-generation user experiences.

You will work in a highly motivated team of software, security, and DevOps enthusiasts. And guess what - the most frequent comment in our SCRUM retrospective is: “Great Team!” As a team, we always strive to improve our processes by putting you in the center of gravity. We master our DevOps working style jointly by leveraging each team member’s experience and specialized knowledge. We invest in our people. You’ll have access to continuous learning opportunities, career development programs, and a supportive environment where you can grow. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and respect.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 410344  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.