Senior Senior DevOps Engineer for Customer Portal "SAP for Me"

Job Description

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.

What you’ll build

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who will strengthen the engineering backbone for our mission-critical Customer Portal SAP for Me, enabling fast, secure, and reliable delivery across 20+ agile teams.

Your focus is on developer enablement, automation, and platform excellence.

Specifically, you will:

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure stable and efficient software delivery.
• Improve and maintain automation frameworks for build, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Enhance our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup and deployment standards.
• Support and evolve our Kubernetes-based platform architecture.
• Improve developer experience by providing reusable templates, tooling standards, and self-service capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed DevOps best practices into daily development workflows.
• Contribute to platform security, compliance, and quality gate automation.
• Continuously identify bottlenecks in the delivery lifecycle and eliminate manual effort.

Your work will directly increase delivery speed, stability, and engineering productivity across the ART.

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in IT projects
• Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized architectures.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm).
• Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Gradle, Bash, Python, or similar).
• Experience working with version control systems and branching strategies.
• Understanding of security, quality gates, and compliance automation in CI/CD.
• Experience in agile environments (SAFe or Scrum).

Ideally, you also bring experience in large-scale customer-facing platforms and platform standardization initiatives.

Where you belong

You will join SAP for Me Agile Release Train (ART) — a cross-functional organization of ~15 teams developing and operating a large-scale, cloud-native platform.

The platform integrates with more than 50 backend business systems and runs in a modern Kubernetes-based environment (SAP Kyma).

You will become part of the agile team "Bumblebee." The team consists of experienced developers who primarily focus on the development of the shared framework that facilitate the work of developers from other teams. Additionally, the team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and improvement of DevOps tools and deployment. You will work closely with developers and architects to drive and implement new requirements for tools and systems. Emphasis is always placed on code quality, test-driven development, and code reviews. We use pair programming for complex tasks, so it is necessary that you are a team player.

This role is a long-term internal capability to strengthen DevOps maturity, developer enablement, and delivery excellence across the ART.

You belong in a collaborative engineering environment where automation, scalability, and platform quality are key success factors.

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.

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Requisition ID: 446884 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid