DevOps Engineer - Database Infra Team in CloudOS Group in P&E SAP Signavio (m/f/d)

We help the world run better. 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.

We are looking for skilled DevOps Engineer with a real‑world knowledge and experience in relational databases and strong developer mindset, to join our Database infrastructure team – a part of CloudOS, SAP Signavio in Germany.

Being part of this team is an opportunity to lead improvements of the diverse database landscape of the entire SAP Signavio organization, establish best practices, help engineering teams ramp up their knowledge, maintain central components of the persistence layer, and enable adoption and migration to HANA Cloud – SAP database technology.

What You’ll Do

• Own our existing AWS RDS DBs infrastructure – from maintenance to improvements in scalability, reliability, ease of use, costs etc.
• Enhance continuous performance monitoring and improvements of database systems, as well as guiding teams through challenging situations requiring detailed understanding of database engines.
• Ensure security and compliance using state of the art Infrastructure‑as‑Code approaches.
• Support development of HANA Cloud full database life‑cycle management service and future migration.
• Contribute to the entire cycle of product development, from first ideas and brainstorming sessions to continuously delivering improvements based on internal customer data.
• Collaborate with other teams and Tech Leads across the organization to establish and evolve best practices.
• Mentor less‑experienced peers and be mentored by more‑experienced peers.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience with databases (for example SAP HANA Cloud, MySQL, Postgres or their cloud‑based equivalents) and document stores, data access layer programming models and operational aspects of the cloud persistence technologies.
• Good knowledge of AWS RDS.
• Confidence in working with Kubernetes clusters and managing corresponding resources.
• Programming skills in one of modern languages (Python, Node.js, Go, TypeScript, Java) and proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with software engineering practices like GitOps using Helm Charts, ArgoCD, CI/CD, TDD, and GitHub workflow to infrastructure.
• Ability to enable others to work independently and to prepare great documentation.
• Interest in working in an agile environment, with test driven development, pair programming and fast iterations.
• Ability to handle uncertainty and adapt to continuous change.

Meet Your Team

Building on the intelligent enterprise strategy, SAP Signavio set out to support and accompany SAP customers in navigating through their digital transformation by helping them understand and improve their business processes.

The CloudOS group is one of five engineering groups in the P&E department of SAP Signavio. Our mission is to make the foundation for our application developers to focus on creating value – profiting from the scale of SAP without being too dragged down by overhead, with low cognitive load, and with security & compliance built‑in. We pride ourselves in following a Platform Engineering approach, being infrastructure‑as‑code only, and we continuously push to adopt new technologies that solve our most significant issues once proven.

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.

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