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