Junior DevOps Engineer for Business Technology Platform – fixed-term contract

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 help the world run better

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

What you’ll do

• Be responsible for infrastructure bootstrapping topics in Cloud Foundry environment (BOSH and K8s-based) for the Business Technology Platform
• Adopt IaaS services and implement features to meet our clients’ needs
• Implement improvements in the already existing infrastructure components (proprietary, load balancers, routing services, jump hosts, etc.) with focus on availability, reliability, scalability, and security
• Troubleshoot and efficiently resolve incidents related to infrastructure components
• Work with one of the following IaaS providers: AWS, GCP or OpenStack
• Focus on sustainable, fully automated solutions with high quality
• Develop and improve the Continuous Delivery infrastructure based on Jenkins, Concourse and GitHub
• Support and utilize system wide observability capabilities
• Deploy and utilize monitoring tools like Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, etc.
• Discover and push environment limits by defining, using, and analyzing metrics driven alerts
• Collaborate and communicate with different teams across different organizations and global locations

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree or graduating. Alternatively, high school diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related subject
• Curiosity and desire to quickly learn and explore new concepts and technologies
• Basic coding knowledge and/or experience with shell scripting (bash) or Python
• Experience with git source control management
• Networking knowledge (TCP/IP protocols, DNS, OSI model, routing, load balancing, CDN, etc.)
• Understanding of different operating systems – i.e., Linux/Unix based systems
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good written and spoken English
• Excellent communication skills (mail, phone and face-to-face)
• Team player passionate about own’s work and impact, self-starter who contributes to a positive atmosphere in the team
• Able to adjust to changes in environment and technologies
• Responsible, respectful, and open-minded

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Knowledge of cloud concepts or modern cloud architectures
• CI/CD, automation environments, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), concepts or tools knowledge

Meet your team

We are an organization of enablers, who provide the lowest foundational layer for the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) in a reliable, secure, silent, scalable, and future-proof way for application teams and partners to create fast and efficient business value for customers.

Our team looks after The root of the platform – the cloud infrastructure for Cloud Foundry environment(s) on all major IaaS providers – AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba and our SAP internal offering based on OpenStack.

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.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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.

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Requisition ID: 439079 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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