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We are seeking a hands-on senior engineer to help continue the development, care, feeding, deployment, and support of our SAP 2.0 platform. This role spans platform engineering, software development, automation, infrastructure, and SAP operations. The ideal candidate can design and build delivery pipelines, container images, Helm-based deployments, and operational tooling while also supporting production platform reliability, security, and lifecycle management. This will be a hybrid position. 

Skill Requirements:

• Must Hold a Secret Clearance
• Build, deploy, harden, operate, and extend the SAP 2.0 platform across Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure Local, and AKS environments
  Key Responsibilities
  Design, build, and enhance the SAP 2.0 platform for containerized SAP workloads and supporting platform services.
  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, validation, release, deployment, and promotion of SAP platform components.
  Create and support hardened container images, Dockerfiles, runtime patterns, and deployment artifacts for SAP services and associated tooling.
  Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, OpenShift templates, and YAML-based configuration across environments.
  Write and maintain automation and support tooling in Bash and Go for provisioning, startup orchestration, health checks, troubleshooting, and platform operations.
  Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot workloads in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Local, and Azure Kubernetes Service environments.
  Work closely with SAP, infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to ensure reliable service delivery and production support.
  Support operational excellence through documentation, runbooks, standards, observability, and incident response readiness.
  Help define scalable, secure, and repeatable engineering practices for hybrid and cloud-connected SAP platform deployments.
  Required Technical Skills and Experience
  Development and Automation
  Strong development mindset with experience building internal platform tooling and deployment automation.
  Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and hands-on experience implementing build and release pipelines.
  Strong Bash scripting skills for automation, administration, operational support, and runtime control.
  Working proficiency in Go for platform utilities, automation tools, services, or controllers.
  Strong experience writing and maintaining Dockerfiles and container image build processes.
  Strong experience developing and maintaining Helm charts.
  Strong understanding of YAML for Kubernetes resources, Helm values, pipelines, and configuration management.
  Containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Platforms
  Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes architecture, workload deployment, and operational troubleshooting.
  Strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, including enterprise cluster deployment patterns and platform operations.
  Experience deploying and supporting workloads in Azure Local and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  Understanding of container lifecycle management, persistent volumes, secrets, config maps, ingress, services, jobs, init containers, and sidecars.
  Experience troubleshooting enterprise container platform issues across compute, storage, configuration, access, and networking layers.
  Infrastructure, Networking, and SAP Platform Experience
  Strong Linux administration background, preferably in Red Hat or RHEL-based environments.
  Strong networking background, including DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, ingress and egress controls, subnets, proxy behavior, and enterprise connectivity troubleshooting.
  Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, hybrid cloud, firewall, DNS, routing, and load-balancing layers.
  Experience supporting SAP platform workloads, ideally including SAP HANA, SAP infrastructure, SAP runtime services, or SAP Basis-adjacent responsibilities.
  Understanding of secure platform design, production operations, hybrid deployment models, and enterprise support requirements.
  Preferred Qualifications
  Experience with containerized SAP landscapes and modernization of legacy SAP deployment models.
  Experience with GitOps, policy validation, automated promotion between environments, and release governance.
  Exposure to security hardening, compliance automation, and enterprise platform standards.
  Experience supporting stateful workloads and persistent storage patterns in Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  Experience writing clear technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.
  Ability to work effectively across engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, and SAP functional teams.
  Must-Have Skills
  CI/CD pipeline development and support
  Bash scripting
  Go development
  Dockerfile and container image engineering
  Helm chart development
  Strong YAML knowledge
  Kubernetes
  Red Hat OpenShift
  Azure Local and AKS understanding
  Linux / Red Hat systems knowledge
  Strong networking fundamentals and troubleshooting
  Preferred / Value-Add Skills
  SAP platform, SAP Basis, or SAP HANA exposure
  GitOps and release automation
  Security hardening and compliance automation
  Stateful workload support in Kubernetes
  Hybrid cloud and enterprise network architecture experience
  Runbook and technical documentation ownership

Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at ELEVI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At ELEVI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here.

The proposed salary range for this position is:

130,000-1650,000

Why Work at ELEVI? 

To become an ELEVI employee is to become an integral part of the team. From Federal to Commercial, ELEVI offers our employees the ability to expand skills and fully engage their minds and passions. Each member of the team enjoys the opportunity to expand their career to meet their individual goals and objectives. We celebrate the ideas that bring about positive change, and the diverse talents and backgrounds that come together to create those ideas.

Our benefit packages encompass competitive compensation, financial and counseling services, retirement options, and health insurance programs. Coupled with work/life benefits to address significant life problems as well as everyday problems involved in juggling work, family, and life.  We trust you to take the time you need when you feel it's appropriate. No need to keep track or save up. We trust our employees and empower them to shape their work themselves so that we can achieve the best possible results.

ELEVI Is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) that empowers our people. It is the policy of ELEVI to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants-without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. We fearlessly drive change, because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.