Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Requisition ID: 451142
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Expected Travel: 0%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T4PF-1

Original Posting Date: 04/06/26

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Work Model: Fully Remote

Purpose and Objective:

Ariba, Inc. seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer at our Palo Alto, CA location responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of customer environments in Cloud of respective product lines and to ensure the delivery according to defined Service Level Agreements.

Expectations and Tasks:

Deliver SAP Cloud Applications as a Service from SAP managed datacenters, and hyperscalers. Utilize various technologies (e.g. database, platform) used by development and operations. Drive for automation and standardization. Ensure smooth operations and maximize uptime. Collaborate with engineering and product management as well as other service groups. Improve system landscape support in the assigned functional areas of responsibility. Independent assurance of effective system operations along the software lifecycle. Provide knowledge management in the team and between operations and development. Ensure excellent quality and maintain high standards in all processes listed in the relevant process map. Contribute to operations model/operational processes and procedure. Project or Program management. Maintain and operate cloud network services infrastructure with a focus on switching and routing. Configure and troubleshoot network technologies including BGP, OSPF, HSRP, VRRP, Routing Domains, VLANís VxLAN, and VRF. Implement network infrastructure automated tasks via Ansible, AWX and Python. Work with engineering and architecture teams in order to provide operational expertise in concept development.

Education and Occupational Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:

Experience must include four (4) years involving each of the following:

• Cisco Routing, including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP;

• Cisco Switching, including VLAN, VRRP, VTP, and Trunking;

• Palo Alto Firewall Administration;

• Big-IP F5 LTM and GTM;

• Cisco ASA or Firepower Firewall;

• ITIL Processes, including PCI and Sox;

• Install and configure Netscaler Loadbalancer;

• Hyper Scaler Networking and Automation; and

• Datacenter Networking.

Travel: N/A.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.

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