DevOps leader for BTP Security Engineering - KMS

The BTP Security Engineering Unit serves as a foundation for security services consumed by cloud applications and other platform services across SAP, strengthening our and our customers’ deliveries.

We own cross‑concerns addressing the confidentiality and integrity of SAP BTP, including cryptography, certificates and public key infrastructure, credential management, and more. Extending our current portfolio, a sovereign cloud version of our central Key Management Service is planned as the next evolutionary step of SAP BTP. Working in a new multinational team, you can shape this era from scratch and employ a cloud‑native mindset using cutting‑edge technologies such as Kubernetes managed by SAP Gardener.

You will run and operate the SAP Key Management Service for our sovereign cloud shipments, manage a team of DevOps engineers, and work as a DevOps engineer yourself.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain a monitoring system that oversees our build landscape.
• Identify and address security and performance issues, maintaining a strong focus on quality and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure the systems we build limit exposure to single points of failure and security vulnerabilities.
• Design, implement, and manage DevOps capabilities using CI/CD toolsets and automation.
• Analyze the existing infrastructure and provide expertise on containerization and migration to Kubernetes (K8S).

What You Bring

• Strong degree in computer science, software engineering or similar (Bachelor/Master).
• A minimum of 2 years of management experience, including leading international and interdisciplinary teams.
• A track record of results‑oriented leadership and achieving measurable outcomes.
• A team‑player mindset with strong collaboration skills.
• Significant expertise (5+ years) working as a DevOps engineer.
• Development skills such as Golang (preferred), Node.js, or willingness to learn Golang.
• Comprehensive experience with Kubernetes and container technology.
• Experience working in agile software development processes (Scrum).
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Positive mindset, team player, humble, transparent, and highly adaptable.
• Curiosity and a track record for quickly learning new technologies, concepts, and tools.

Tech You Bring

• Public Cloud Services: Managed Kubernetes clusters, Managed Database clusters.
• Containerisation & Microservices: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Source control & CI/CD tooling: Flux, Git, GitHub Actions.
• Observability & Monitoring tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki.

Meet Your Team

At SAP, security is a cornerstone of the services we provide to our customers. The Security Control Plane team, part of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), holds global responsibilities across all business units and is committed to helping SAP development teams achieve their goals securely. As part of this team, you’ll work on a wide array of security technologies, shaping the very elements that define SAP’s security landscape.

Benefits

Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable legal requirements.

Background Verification

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