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SAP • Herndon, US

SAP NS2 Sr. Platform Security Engineer

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  $159,800 – $271,600 per annum
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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.

NS2 COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services. SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary of SAP. At SAP NS2, we leverage best-in-breed technologies engineered by SAP to protect the lives, assets, and information of Americans. We offer SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.

This position requires access to customer data. Must be a U.S. citizen; SAP NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorships for this role.

All internal must have manager’s approval to transfer.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer with a strong DevOps/DevSecOps background to lead security efforts across our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production workloads. You will be hands-on, conducting threat modeling, driving vulnerability management, building security automation, and hardening multi-cloud environments.

This role partners closely with DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Product teams to embed security into the development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to security tooling strategy, build policy-as-code frameworks, and drive detection and response capabilities across cloud-native infrastructure. A key requirement for this position is deep, demonstrated expertise with the Wiz platform — not surface-level familiarity, but production-level experience architecting deployments, tuning policies, building integrations, and using Wiz as a core pillar of a cloud security program.

PLATFORM EXPERTISE (REQUIRED)

This role requires substantive, production-level experience with the Wiz platform as well as other security toling. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate depth across multiple Wiz capabilities during the interview process.

  • Deployed and administered Wiz CNAPP in production across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments
  • Configured and tuned Wiz security policies, rules, and risk scoring to align with organizational risk appetite and compliance frameworks
  • Built custom Wiz integrations using the Wiz API, including automated workflows for ticket creation, alert routing, CI/CD gating, and reporting
  • Leveraged Wiz’s CSPM, CIEM, vulnerability scanning, container/Kubernetes security, and IaC scanning capabilities in production
  • Experience with EDR/XDR platforms such as CrowdStrike Falcon for endpoint detection, threat hunting, and incident response across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Ability to design and operate vulnerability management programs including scan scheduling, prioritization, SLA enforcement, and remediation tracking
  • Experience with Dynatrace or equivalent APM/observability platforms for infrastructure monitoring, application performance analysis, and security-relevant telemetry
  • Ability to correlate observability data with security findings to improve detection, triage, and incident response workflows

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Cloud Security Architecture: Lead threat modeling and security reviews across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-based workloads. Develop scalable mitigation strategies and secure baselines.
  • DevSecOps Integration: Build automation, policy-as-code, and security tooling that enables development teams to shift left. Integrate security findings into CI/CD workflows, IaC pipelines, and developer feedback loops.
  • Vulnerability Management: Drive vulnerability management and remediation across cloud and container environments. Prioritize issues using risk context, implement mitigations, and design preventative controls across software supply chains.
  • Detection & Response: Extend detection and response capabilities across cloud environments. Build scalable solutions for alert triage, investigation, and incident remediation.
  • Infrastructure Hardening: Design and implement secure baselines for cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE/AKS), IAM, and network architecture. Enforce guardrails through policy-as-code.
  • Security Tooling & Wiz Platform: Support the configuration, optimization, and integration of the Wiz platform as a core component of our cloud security stack. Drive adoption, tune policies, build API integrations, leverage Wiz Code for vulnerability remediation, and ensure Wiz capabilities are fully leveraged across the organization.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Build deep partnerships with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, Product, and SecOps teams. Enable secure-by-design solutions without becoming a bottleneck.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 7+ years of experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud security operations
  • 3+ years of hands-on, production-level experience with the Wiz platform (CNAPP, CSPM, CIEM, container security, IaC scanning, Wiz Code)
  • Strong DevOps/infrastructure background: you’ve built and operated CI/CD pipelines, managed Kubernetes clusters, and automated infrastructure
  • Deep AWS cloud security expertise (equivalent Azure/GCP experience also considered with some AWS proficiency)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security (EKS, GKE, or AKS) and container security principles
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, or Pulumi
  • Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, Shell, and/or HCL
  • Proven ability to lead threat modeling exercises and translate findings into actionable controls
  • Deep understanding of IAM, cloud identity, and least-privilege principles at scale
  • Practical knowledge of web application security fundamentals (OWASP Top 10)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience building custom Wiz API integrations for reporting, automation, or SOAR workflows
  • Wiz Cloud Fundamentals or Detect Fundamentals certification
  • Experience with Wiz in FedRAMP or other compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53)
  • Background in SRE or platform engineering with a pivot into security
  • Experience with complementary security tooling: SIEM/SOAR platforms, EDR, network security
  • AWS, Azure, GCP cloud certifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (equivalent experience accepted)
  • Experience working with remote, globally distributed teams

WHAT SETS YOU APART

You’re a security engineer with a builder’s mindset. You’ve come up through DevOps or infrastructure and you bring that operational DNA to everything you do. You automate, you ship, you iterate, and you partner with engineering rather than gatekeep. On the Wiz side, you don’t just know what it does, you’ve been in the trenches configuring it, building on it, and using it to materially reduce risk. You can walk us through a deployment you’ve architected, explain your policy tuning philosophy, and show us how you’ve used Wiz data to drive real remediation outcomes.

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.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 159800 - 271600(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

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Requisition ID: 448272 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid


Company benefits

25 (UK) 30 (Germany) 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Accrued annual leave – 1 day/year up to 30 days (UK)
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Adoption leave – Up to 52 weeks (UK)
Open to part time work for some roles
Returnship
Equity packages
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Fertility benefits
Pregnancy support
On-site childcare
Share options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Gym membership
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Private GP service
Mental health platform access
Life assurance
Life insurance
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced paternity leave
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Bike parking
Enhanced sick pay
Emergency leave
Enhanced sick days
Company car
Open to part-time employees
Work from anywhere scheme
Childcare credits
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Carer’s leave
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
Family health insurance
Women’s health leave
Annual bonus
401K
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Employee discounts
Loyalty programme
Non-contributory pension
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
L&D budget
Language lessons
LinkedIn learning license
Study support
Studying sabbaticals
Lunch and learns
In house training
Hackathons
Professional subscriptions
Further education support

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