Sovereign Cloud Expert DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) - SAP SuccessFactors (HCM)

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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. That is 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 Board area Customer Services & 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.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

We are looking for an Expert DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) within the Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations team in the Customer Services & Delivery board area, focused on the Sovereign Cloud deployment of SAP SuccessFactors (HCM).

In this role, you will join the Multi-Tenant Engineering team: We own, build, and harden, the internal SAP Sovereign Cloud environments used as reference by the regional Operations teams. You will build the automation deployment that will deliver SAP SuccessFactors (HCM) applications to SAP Sovereign Cloud customers aiming at functional completeness, streamlined deployments, and smooth operation. You will be working closely with technical product managers, engineers, and architects with a focus on HCM applications. You will have the opportunity to solve the intricate challenges of scale and security which are unique to SAP Sovereign Cloud. You will be the subject matter expert of the Sovereign Cloud HCM environment setup, leveraging your functional & technical expertise, complexity analysis, and stakeholder management. You will engage closely with regional Operations colleagues, Security, QA, as well as the other Sovereign Cloud Engineering teams. You will drive the end-to-end deployment of product capabilities - from defining implementation concepts, to performing functional & technical assessments, hardening, ultimately culminating in automated deployments for customer adoption.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or similar field
• Professional experience in Cloud Delivery related fields and technologies
• In-depth knowledge of hyperscalers (AWS preferred)
• Very good understanding and implementation experience of Terraform
• In-depth experience in technologies used for deploying and managing Cloud-native applications:

• Container Orchestration tools e.g. Gardener (preferred), Kubernetes, Docker
• Helm charts
• Repository management e.g. Artifactory (preferred), JFrog (preferred)
• Service management tools e.g. Consul (preferred), Zookeeper

Experience with

• Deployment automation and the tools e.g. Ansible, Chef
• CI/CD pipelines e.g. ArgoCD (preferred), GitLab CI/CD (preferred), Jenkins
• Monitoring e.g. Dynatrace, CloudWatch
• Logging e.g. Splunk (preferred), Elasticsearch, Logstash
• Cloud Networking tools e.g. AWS VPCs (preferred), VNet, Google VPC
• API Management tools (Apigee preferred)

• Familiarity with GitLab and/or GitHub
• Scripting background e.g. PowerShell, Python (preferred)
• Security best practices including hardened containers and images (STIG)
• Experience with Security tools e.g. Hashicorp Vault (preferred), GitHub Secrets
• Database knowledge like SAP HANA
• Experience with HCM system environment setup is a big plus
• Familiarity with Cloud Foundry is a plus
• Prior exposure to OpenStack deployment or CLI tools is a plus
• Excellent methodological and conceptual skills paired with analytical thinking
• Proven ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Fluency in written and spoken English

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of professional experience in Cloud Delivery related fields and technologies
• 4+ years of experience in cloud operations - developing, delivering, and maintaining Cloud Products
• Development experience in at least one programming language
• Professional experience in software engineering role

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