Senior DevOps Engineer

About SAP

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What You'll Do as a Senior DevOps Engineer

You will build enterprise cloud infrastructure that provides European data sovereignty and hyperscaler-grade capabilities. Working on SAP Cloud Infrastructure, you will solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale, including multi-region networking, container orchestration, storage systems, and their connecting APIs.

You will contribute to building a sovereign, privacy-first AI cloud for the European market, making it easy to securely train, fine-tune, and deploy foundation and domain models with strict data residency and isolation.

You will develop solutions using Go, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, tackling problems like auto-scaling thousands of containers across regions, building resilient storage systems, and designing APIs that handle massive traffic spikes.

Your work will power SAP's production systems and thousands of customer environments, contributing to infrastructure that enables organizations to run mission-critical applications with the performance and reliability expected from leading cloud platforms.

In this role, you'll build and maintain the infrastructure automation that powers SAP Cloud Infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for enterprise cloud services. You'll ensure reliable delivery of distributed systems components that handle massive scale across multiple regions.

You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tooling to automate the deployment and operation of container orchestration platforms, networking systems, and storage solutions. Your focus will be on creating robust automation that supports multi-region deployments, handles traffic spikes gracefully, and maintains the high availability standards expected by enterprise customers.

Contributing to production systems that serve thousands of customer environments, you'll build automation solutions that enable SAP Cloud Infrastructure to compete with leading cloud platforms. Your work will directly support European organizations in running mission-critical applications while maintaining full control and data sovereignty.

What You Bring

• Kubernetes Platform Mastery: Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters and managing workloads, upgrades, and platform components such as ingress, service meshes, and cert-manager. CKA, CKAD, or CKS certification are a strong plus. Expert-level knowledge of OpenStack, multi-cloud environments with advanced container orchestration and multi-cluster federation.
• Advanced Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Mastery of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and advanced Kubernetes management, including multi-cluster operations, scaling, and monitoring.
• Automation Proficiency: Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure Mastery: Deep experience with Terraform, Pulumi, and building self-service developer platforms at hyperscaler grade.
• Advanced Scripting Capabilities: Proficient in Go, Python or Bash, or other languages for building complex automation workflows.
• Monitoring & Observability: Advanced skills in Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and designing SLI/SLO frameworks for distributed systems.
• Platform Engineering Experience: 5–8 years in DevOps or infrastructure roles, with demonstrated ability to design, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms at scale. Experience with proven ability to lead teams and drive infrastructure initiatives.
• Innovative Problem-Solving: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex distributed system issues using metrics and tracing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki; skilled in performance tuning, incident response, and automating operational resilience.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Strong track record leading cross-functional teams, mentoring junior engineers, and driving organizational adoption of best practices.
• Strategic Vision: Experience developing infrastructure roadmaps, technology strategy, and managing thousands of workloads in multi-region environments.
• Security and Compliance: Awareness of industry standards related to security and compliance and experience integrating regulatory requirements into architectural patterns.
• Cultural Adaptability: Experience working across cultures and languages with strong communication skills for diverse, distributed teams.
• Soft skills: Excellent presentation, communication and problem-solving skills, have a thorough way of working with accuracy, take proactive initiatives, self-dependent and structured mode of working, high level of commitment and reliability, ready to work in a constantly changing, floating environment, fun working in a multinational team.

Meet the Team

You'll join PlusOne Central Engineering, where innovation meets collaboration. Our culture values engineering excellence, continuous learning, and diverse perspectives. We embrace modern practices, support career growth, and maintain work-life balance while building enterprise-scale solutions that drive digital transformation.

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 world.

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Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes Platform Mastery
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise
• Terraform and IaC
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Go Programming
• Distributed Systems
• Prometheus and Grafana
• OpenStack Expertise
• Automation Workflows
• Platform Engineering