DevOps Engineer

We help the world run better

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll do:

As an DevOps Engineer in LX Language Technology, you will have a variety of responsibilities that focus on helping to administer and support tools and infrastructure.

Here are the key areas you will be involved in:

• Platform reliability and operations
• Build, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms, CI/CD workflows, delivery automation, GitOps operations and supporting services with a focus on resiliency.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code for consistent, auditable, and reusable environments.
• Incident and change management
• Participate in incident response, RCA's, and Post-mortems to reduce MTTD/MTTR and prevent recurrence.
• Observability, performance, and security
• Design and maintain dashboards, alerts, and tracing using the observability toolset to ensure end-to-end visibility.
• Consulting, enablement, and documentation
• Partner with product and engineering teams to provide guidance, troubleshoot issues, and improve developer experience.
• Create and maintain high-quality runbooks, architecture docs, and operational playbooks to scale knowledge across the team.
• Stay current with evolving DevOps, SRE, and cloud-native best practices; evaluate new tooling that improves reliability and delivery speed.

What you bring:

• Solid hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles supporting production workloads.
• Bachelor's degree in any of the following areas: Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Engineering or related field.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes operations and containerized applications.
• Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform.
• Competence in scripting/automation to reduce toil and codify operational tasks.
• Observability mindset with experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing actionable monitoring/alerting.
• Experience participating in incident response, conducting blameless postmortems, and driving reliability improvements.
• Team-oriented, proactive, analytical with a continuous learning mindset.
• Fluency in English

Bonus points

• Istio or other service mesh expertise (traffic management, mTLS, zero-trust patterns).
• Security and compliance experience (image scanning, SBOMs, secret management, IAM, network policies).
• Performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization in cloud-native environments.
• Experience migrating on-premise workloads to cloud or modernizing legacy systems to Kubernetes.

Meet your team:

The Language Technology (LT) Team supports and operates various components essential for the SAP translation infrastructure. With focus on providing the best experience for over 3000 users regarding translation tool support and connectivity.

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.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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