Senior Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Sovereign Cloud

About the role

Join SAP’s Sovereign Cloud team as a Senior Reliability Engineer, responsible for securing and scaling the foundational platform that powers the Shared Management Services. You will work with a globally distributed group of engineers to ensure high availability, strong security, and operational excellence across multi‑cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Drive reliability, security posture, and operational excellence of the platform, covering source control, CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, container orchestration, network security, and observability tooling.
• Identify and close critical capability gaps, define standardized operational processes, and lead infrastructure hardening, backup validation, and disaster‑recovery drills.
• Treat security as a first‑class reliability concern, hardening IAM, secrets management, and supply‑chain integrity.

Required profile

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity, innovate, and collaborate across cross‑functional teams.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with a strategic mindset.
• Fluent English and cultural awareness to influence without formal authority.

Required skills

• Linux/Unix administration, networking fundamentals, and large‑scale distributed cloud environments.
• Infrastructure as Code and automation: Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, PowerShell.
• CI/CD pipelines, Git, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus.
• Security expertise: IAM, secrets management, Active Directory (plus).