Site Reliability Engineer Intern

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. 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.

What you’ll do

Student status is mandatory!

We are looking for a highly motivated student to join our team. You will work collaboratively to develop automated deployment tools, monitor system health, maintain secure and efficient IT architecture, and ensure swift troubleshooting of issues when they arise.

As part of an SRE team, you will support service deployment, developing and implementing software continuous integration and delivery pipelines. In addition, you will maintain configuration management solutions and work with various teams to improve DevOps practices throughout the organization.

Following SRE principles, you will also collaborate with experienced software engineers from around the globe and jointly investigate problems and help improving our products.

What you bring

As a student in Computer Science or related technical field, you should have a basic knowledge of modern cloud architectures, debugging and profiling tools. You will also have a passion for automation and interest to work with different tools. We are looking for a team player who can work efficiently in emergency situations and quickly analyse and solve problems in a worldwide team setup. Excellent communication skills are required in these scenarios to ensure information distributed is precise and factual.

You should also have basic knowledge in the following areas:

• DevOps, SRE, System Admin, or similar
• Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and architecture
• DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, Travis CI, Puppet, Chef, GitHub)
• Coding and scripting languages (Java, Python, Go, Bash, Selenium, Groovy)

Knowledge in the following areas would be considered a strong advantage:

• Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Dynatrace
• Knowledge of containerization (Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and processes

We would also look for some key soft skills such as:

• Communication
• Positive “can do” attitude
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Teamwork
• Excellent work ethic – stay focused and complete tasks in a timely manner
• Willingness to learn

Meet your team

The SAP Build Engineering Services Cloud Ops team is an SRE team that plays a fundamental role in managing and maintaining the organization's cloud computing strategy. They are responsible for overseeing the daily operations and maintenance of cloud applications, ensuring their availability, performance, reliability, and security. This involves monitoring system health, handling software upgrades and deployments, identifying and troubleshooting issues, and ensuring optimal resource allocation. They also work closely with other teams to troubleshoot complex system issues, implement necessary updates, and ensure compliance with industry's best practices and regulations. Furthermore, the Cloud Ops team is crucial in disaster recovery planning and execution, as well as creating guidelines and procedures for cloud operations.

The Cloud Ops team makes the SAP Build Services run better by providing 24x7 deep technical coverage for Incident Management applying SRE principles. We share a Live Site First culture and care for the business continuity of our customers running mission critical applications on top of the Cloud Platform.

​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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 428677 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.