Sofia, BG
14 days ago
DevOps Engineer for Gardener, the SAP Kubernetes Service

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1700 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and business applications. Most recently, SAP Labs Bulgaria expanded in the topics of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For its 25-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you’ll do

Gardener team is adopting the Kubernetes open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized SAP solutions and business applications. Evolving and enhancing the open source project Gardener as SAP’s way to provide a homogeneous and universal Kubernetes-based container management is the key deliverable of this team, in close collaboration with the teams in other SAP locations. Project Gardener is providing solutions to run and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on public cloud, hybrid or SAP owned infrastructures for a variety of enterprise use cases.

Site Reliability Engineering team in Gardener organization is ensuring the Live Site First culture, reacts on alerts, performs proactive monitoring, prepares, and applies hotfixes or critical configuration changes, performs Root Cause Analysis, implements automations and improvements in various components around the test machinery, monitoring and observability stacks.

Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, and enhance software-based solutions to achieve improvements in service stability, reliability, and operations Act as technical expert during incidents, investigate and solve incidents on a deep technical level. Perform troubleshooting and log analysis to identify and solve issues in accordance with internal and external SLAs Drive root cause analysis and follow-up improvements to prevent reoccurring issues Learn new technologies and keep up to date with latest product releases Work with tools like Concourse, GitHub & GitHub Actions, Grafana, Prometheus, Prow Use programming languages like Go, Python and Bash Understanding Kubernetes is a must! Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a plus or taking the certificate is expected within a year Voluntarily weekend OnCall duties Experience with Istio, Linux and security hardening procedures is a plus.

What you bring

A degree in computer science, software engineering or similar (Bachelor/Master) Good understanding of modern cloud architectures. Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP (and especially GKE) and Azure is a plus Enthusiasm for automation and software development in general Working efficiently in emergency situations. Affinity to quickly analyze and solve problems in a worldwide team setup Excellent team player, be passionate about your work Excellent communication skills – be precise, based on facts, fluent in English (written and verbal). Collaboration in an international environment will be a regular part of your job.

Meet your team     

We, from the Gardener team, are leaving a mark with our contribution in some of the hottest open-source projects, used productively within the company.
Being our colleague, you will…

Help Gardener service meet its SLAs Be engaged with the Gardener and CNCF/Kubernetes community, report or follow up on upstream issues Regularly share your knowledge and achievements with colleagues.

Curious about Gardener and the team? You can find us on Github, Slack, X or on our YouTube channel.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If you’d like to become part of our Gardener team, just apply and you may be offered a position according to your current working experience and expertise.
Students are welcome.

 

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​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 and more equitable world.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 410337  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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