Site Reliability Engineering

The Role

We seek a passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team at SAP’s Cloud Security organization. In this role, you’ll be the guardian of our systems' health, ensuring that our Identity and Access Management infrastructure is resilient, secure, and always available. You'll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the systems that keep our services running smoothly, even in the face of unforeseen challenges. Your work will directly impact millions of users and businesses worldwide. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference.

What you’ll do

• Ensure High Availability: Design and implement fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable systems. You’ll be the one who makes sure our services are always up and running.
• Automate Everything: Develop tools that reduce manual effort and streamline processes, from deployments to incident management. You believe in automating repetitive tasks to focus on what truly matters.
• Monitor & Respond: Proactively monitor the health of our systems, identify potential issues before they become problems, and respond quickly to incidents when they occur. Your ability to troubleshoot in high-pressure situations will be crucial.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement. You’ll work closely with development teams to optimize code and infrastructure for better efficiency and speed.
• Collaborate & Educate: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to foster a culture of reliability. You’ll share your knowledge and help others build more reliable systems.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead by researching and implementing the latest technologies and best practices in site reliability engineering. You’ll be encouraged to experiment, innovate, and continuously improve our systems.

What you bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline that provides a solid background in software development.

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline and 3+ years of experience in a similar Site reliability engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering role, with a strong background in software engineering.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in cloud technologies (Cloud Foundry, NGINX), application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Grafana), infrastructure as code (Jenkins, GitHub), relational databases (PostgreSQL), and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Problem Solver: You thrive on solving complex problems and can think independently. You’re not just fixing issues - you’re building solutions that prevent them.
• Team Player: Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You can work seamlessly with cross-functional teams and are always ready to lend a helping hand.
• Passionate & Driven: You’re passionate about technology and reliability. You’re constantly learning and looking for ways to improve yourself and the systems you manage.
• Communication Skills: Fluency in both written and spoken English

Tech you bring

• Basic bash/python knowledge
• Experience in virtualization/containerization technologies such as Docker would be a plus
• Basic knowledge of monitoring tools such as ELK and/or Dynatrace

Meet your team

Enabling developers, business users, and ecosystem partners to build and integrate business applications and run them on a trusted, enterprise-grade business platform is our mission at SAP Business Technology Platform, ensuring our customers gain business-critical insights from data and drive continuous business innovation to deliver next-generation user experiences.

You will work in a highly motivated team of software, security, and DevOps enthusiasts. And guess what - the most frequent comment in our SCRUM retrospective is: “Great Team!” As a team, we always strive to improve our processes by putting you in the center of gravity. We master our DevOps working style jointly by leveraging each team member’s experience and specialized knowledge. We invest in our people. You’ll have access to continuous learning opportunities, career development programs, and a supportive environment where you can grow. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and respect.

​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.