(Sr) Cloud Engineer/Developer (f/m/d) Gardener/Managed Kubernetes in Sovereign Cloud Environments

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. 

What you'll do

You are interested in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies? You like contributing to an active open-source community? Then you will find an inspiring and professional environment for your learning and growth.

As a (Senior) Cloud Engineer/Developer (f/m/d) you will contribute to the Gardener project (gardener cloud), which is also the foundation for a managed Kubernetes service running on multiple cloud providers (public, hybrid, private, and sovereign clouds) in the context of the SAP Business Technology Platform Foundation. You will become part of a team consisting of highly skilled individuals based in Walldorf. 

Your primary focus will be on enabling Gardener in restricted and sovereign cloud environments that exist alongside public cloud deployments.

What you bring

We are looking for a motivated, self-driven, and team-oriented colleague with a strong technical foundation around software engineering, cloud methodologies, containers, and Kubernetes.

In detail, you bring the following qualifications:

• An excellent university degree in computer science or related fields
• Proven hands-on software engineering experience with Golang
• Solid understanding of container technologies, Kubernetes, and related cloud-native technologies
• Familiarity with Linux systems and command-line interfaces
• Experiences with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP and ideally also experienced in private, restricted, and sovereign cloud contexts such as OpenStack, vSphere etc.

Soft skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a team-oriented, collaborative, self-driven, and proactive mindset, affinity for continuous improvement procedures, emphasizing clean code, quality, and system efficiency, enthusiasm for technology, ability to discuss and present technical concepts, proficiency in English and pleasure to work within an international environment.

Meet your team

The “Gardener“ 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 (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. The Gardener project is providing solutions to run and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on public cloud, hybrid, restricted, sovereign, or SAP-owned infrastructures for a variety of enterprise use cases inside and outside of SAP.

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.

Requisition ID: 401104  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: Virtual - Germany #LI-Hybrid