Technical Lead - Security Services Site Reliability Engineering

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The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1400 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and has recently welcomed new teams focusing on business applications. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

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Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

We are looking for Technical Lead for our brand new SRE team with a focus on Cloud Foundry and K8S security services.

As a Technical SRE Lead you will:

• Act as a role model and multiplier of best practices with your technical expertise and soft skills
• Actively shares knowledge and participate in your colleagues technical development
• Stakeholder management - align and balance the needs and priorities of various stakeholders, team and SRE org
• Collaborate closely with Development teams, other technical and non-technical teams, managers in international environment to achieve commitments
• Team roadmap and commitments management
• Adopt and propose new tools and practices that enable the team to gain deeper insights into system/services behavior, performance and reliability
• Strive for and enable proactive approach to Incident Management, alerting and recommended actions to reduce risk of failure
• Be able to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies
• Apply latest security standards in our day to day work and software solutions
• Build and maintain automation code and tools
• Build observability based on user experience and key user journeys
• Drive projects with impact not only for your team but the whole SRE organization
• Be part of weekend and overnight on-call rotation if technical expert is needed during Live site situations (downtime or performance degradation of services in scope). It comes with special compensation package!

The following skills and competencies will bring you closer to meeting with us:

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications or related technical area
• Expert DevOps/SRE or other relevant position
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture and/or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deep expertise with security concepts in the cloud (examples but not limited to - Identity and access management, authentication, Certificates management, malware, etc)
• Deep understanding of virtualization
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Terraform, Postgres
• Experience with Programming languages like Python, Bash, Go, etc
• Monitoring, logging and visualization tools like Dynatrace, Kibana, Grafana, etc
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Concourse
• Experience with PKI and Cryptographic applications, Application attacks (advantage)
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Be able to work efficiently in critical situations and have an affinity to analyze and solve problems quickly
• Be a real team player, self-motivated, proactive and continuous learner
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
• Fluency in English

We know from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. Please apply regardless of your self-assessment - we want to hear from you! We have seen people succeed with a diverse range of skills and experiences.

If you’d like to become part of a rapidly evolving cloud-native ecosystem that will shape the industry in the coming years, just apply to join our team.

Meet your team:

We are building new SRE team that will be distributed between Sofia and Montreal locations. We force the culture of building teams with strong professionals where knowledge sharing, team collaboration, positive attitude and respect for each team member qualities and personality are main drivers. For us difficulties do not exist they are opportunities to grow, learn and succeed.

​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.

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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: 410325  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.