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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. Thats why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP recently decided to combine and harmonize all SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, establishing an end-to-end process for the Public Sector and regulated industries. The newly created Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit is part of SAP Customer Services and Delivery with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP. Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations is collaborating closely with all Board areas to establish a harmonized, scalable, and consistent offering with transparent and standardized deliverables.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) within the Shared Management Services (SMS) group in the Sovereign Cloud Technology & Engineering unit of the newly formed Customer Services & Delivery board area.

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 teams 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.

This will involve significant coordination with the global Sovereign Cloud operations and engineering teams, our regional teams, and our hyperscaler provider partners.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Bachelors 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

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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

SAPs 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. (https://one.int.sap/me@sap/jobs_at_sap#17498858-1050-415e-8d82-21f91655666b_96fc) Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Requisition ID: 401572 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Timeor Part-Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid