DevOps Engineer for Gardener, the SAP Kubernetes Service

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1700 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and business applications. Most recently, SAP Labs Bulgaria expanded in the topics of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For its 25-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you’ll do

Gardener team is adopting the Kubernetes open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized SAP solutions and business applications. Evolving and enhancing the open source project Gardener as SAP’s way to provide a homogeneous and universal Kubernetes-based container management is the key deliverable of this team, in close collaboration with the teams in other SAP locations. Project Gardener is providing solutions to run and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on public cloud, hybrid or SAP owned infrastructures for a variety of enterprise use cases.

Site Reliability Engineering team in Gardener organization is ensuring the Live Site First culture, reacts on alerts, performs proactive monitoring, prepares, and applies hotfixes or critical configuration changes, performs Root Cause Analysis, implements automations and improvements in various components around the test machinery, monitoring and observability stacks.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance software-based solutions to achieve improvements in service stability, reliability, and operations
• Act as technical expert during incidents, investigate and solve incidents on a deep technical level. Perform troubleshooting and log analysis to identify and solve issues in accordance with internal and external SLAs
• Drive root cause analysis and follow-up improvements to prevent reoccurring issues
• Learn new technologies and keep up to date with latest product releases
• Work with tools like Concourse, GitHub & GitHub Actions, Grafana, Prometheus, Prow
• Use programming languages like Go, Python and Bash
• Understanding Kubernetes is a must! Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a plus or taking the certificate is expected within a year
• Voluntarily weekend OnCall duties
• Experience with Istio, Linux and security hardening procedures is a plus.

What you bring

• A degree in computer science, software engineering or similar (Bachelor/Master)
• Good understanding of modern cloud architectures. Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP (and especially GKE) and Azure is a plus
• Enthusiasm for automation and software development in general
• Working efficiently in emergency situations. Affinity to quickly analyze and solve problems in a worldwide team setup
• Excellent team player, be passionate about your work
• Excellent communication skills – be precise, based on facts, fluent in English (written and verbal). Collaboration in an international environment will be a regular part of your job.

Meet your team

We, from the Gardener team, are leaving a mark with our contribution in some of the hottest open-source projects, used productively within the company.
Being our colleague, you will…

• Help Gardener service meet its SLAs
• Be engaged with the Gardener and CNCF/Kubernetes community, report or follow up on upstream issues
• Regularly share your knowledge and achievements with colleagues.

Curious about Gardener and the team? You can find us on Github, Slack, X or on our YouTube channel.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If you’d like to become part of our Gardener team, just apply and you may be offered a position according to your current working experience and expertise.
Students are welcome.

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