Senior DevOps Engineer - Sovereign Cloud Automation & Tooling (SAT)

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

We are looking for a highly motivated and technically strong Senior DevOps Engineer (T3) to join our SAT team. This role is focused on designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing Kubernetes-based deployments, and supporting Linux-based infrastructure that powers our sovereign cloud automation landscape.As a key contributor, you will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to ensure stable, secure, and scalable delivery pipelines and infrastructure automation

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment and testing across cloud-native environments
• Build and manage Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance with sovereign requirements
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based infrastructure supporting SAT tooling and automation services
• Collaborate with development and architecture teams to containerize applications, manage Helm charts, and implement GitOps workflows
• Monitor system performance and proactively resolve issues to ensure platform availability and efficiency
• Contribute to the automation of infrastructure provisioning and service configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Helm
• Support integration and observability efforts using platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana

What you bring

• Minimum 6 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation roles
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • Kubernetes (setup, operations, Helm, RBAC, namespaces
  • Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL, or similar)
  • CI/CD tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar
• Solid understanding of Docker, container orchestration, and deployment strategies
• Experience with Git-based workflows, scripting (Shell, Python), and YAML/JSON configuration
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology and tools like JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Exposure to security and compliance automation in regulated environments
• Basic understanding of networking, DNS, firewalls, and proxy configurations
• Knowledge of observability tooling such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana is a plus
• Previous experience in Sovereign Cloud or public sector cloud environments is advantageous
  

Meet the team

The Sovereign Cloud Automation & Tooling (SAT) team is responsible for building secure, compliant, and automated infrastructure and observability solutions that support SAP’s Sovereign Cloud strategy. SAT enables tooling integration across platforms like Operations Control Plane (OCP), FRUN, LAMA, Dynatrace, and ensures resilient cloud operations in regulated regions such as the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Be part of a team that builds and operates the foundational automation and tooling that powers SAP’s Sovereign Cloud delivery. Work on cutting-edge technologies while contributing to secure and scalable cloud infrastructure for the world’s most regulated industries

This position can also be filled as a part time position.

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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

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: [email protected].
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Requisition ID: 423672| Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%| Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part Time or Regular Full Time #LI-Hybrid

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