Developer with Cloud Infrastructure background for Open Source Project Gardener

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria is technology-focused and plays key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Cloud Platform. With its more than 1060 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions towards life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products. For its 21-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

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 SAP’s 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 other 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.

The Role

If you are interested in cloud development, based on cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, or you have always wanted to be part of an active open source community, this is the job for you. With us, you will find an inspiring and professional environment for your learning and growth.

In your special role as an expert for one of our cloud infrastructures, you will design, develop and run a Kubernetes cloud service with the additional responsibilities to implement infrastructure specific components and automate the corresponding procedures and measures. We emphasize engineering excellence, foster autonomous teamwork and a trust-based working model. Collaboration with other teams in an international environment will be a regular part of your work.

We are looking for...

a Developer who

• is a fast learner
• thinks creatively and has passion for coding
• loves challenges and deep-dives into complex pieces of software and architecture
• is enthusiastic about cloud technologies and has a cloud native mindset
• is serious about good development practices: code reviews and writing tests being second nature
• invests in automation rather than doing tedious repetitive manual tasks
• is eager to pair, teach and learn with top engineers from around the globe

Being our colleague, you will…

• do research and prototyping
• design, develop, test and deliver robust, scalable and understandable software
• leave a mark with your contribution in some of the hottest open-source projects these days
• engage in CNCF/Kubernetes community SIGs and Working Groups
• regularly share your knowledge and achievements with colleagues in and around the Cloud Native ecosystem

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Required

• University education in computer science, software engineering or similar
• Strong knowledge and experience in at least one of: Go (preferred), C/C++, C# or Java
• Good communication skills in English
• Common understanding about Kubernetes and DevOps practices
• Track record for quickly learning new technologies, concepts and tools
• Hands-on experience in at least one cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare

Preferred
You are either familiar with or at least curious about

• Kubernetes and Kubernetes orchestration on scale
• Cloud computing, Docker, logging, monitoring
• Cloud-Native technologies – anything among these
• Bash, Python or other scripting language
• Security
• Experience with Linux
• Computer networking technologies
• Git, Github

Be curious about Gardener and have a look at gardener.cloud, find us in github, join our #gardener Slack channel, follow @GardenerProject in Twitter or just watch some of our Community Meetings in Gardener Project 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.