SAP NS2 Director, Cloud Infrastructure & DevSecOps

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services and SAP National Security Services Inc. (SAP NS2) is an independent U.S. subsidiary offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.

This position requires access to customer data; Must be a U.S. citizen.

SAP NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorships for this role. All internals must have managers approval to transfer.

• Lead mentor and scale a high-performing DevOps and cloud platform engineering organization fostering a culture of technical excellence accountability innovation and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the strategic roadmap forcloud infrastructure platform automation operational maturity and engineering standardizationacross a multi-cloud ecosystem.
• Serve as the senior technical and people leader for infrastructure engineering balancing long-term platform strategy with near-term operational execution.
• Oversee the architecture deployment and lifecycle management ofsecure scalable resilient infrastructureusing Infrastructure as Code with a strong emphasis onTerraform reusable modules policy-driven automation and platform consistency.
• Drive the design and operational governance ofprovider-agnostic infrastructure patternsacross AWS Azure and GCP to support secure repeatable and compliant deployments.
• Lead the evolution of configuration management and post-provisioning automation practices usingAnsibleand related tooling to support customer environments at scale.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices forGitLab-based source control branching strategy peer review release governance CI/CD and change managementacross multiple repositories and teams.
• Provide leadership for the deployment operation and continuous improvement ofcontainerized and orchestrated platforms includingDocker and Kubernetes with a focus on reliability scalability maintainability and security.
• Partner closely with product engineering security compliance architecture operations and customer-facing teams to deliver infrastructure solutions aligned with business priorities customer commitments and regulatory requirements.
• ChampionDevSecOps and security-by-design principles ensuring security governance and compliance controls are embedded into infrastructure architecture automation pipelines and operational processes.
• Drive operational excellence through matureincident response root cause analysis problem management service restoration and post-incident improvement practices.
• Provide executive oversight for troubleshooting and resolving complexinfrastructure platform networking and connectivity issuesacross hosted and customer-connected environments.
• Ensure robustobservability monitoring logging alerting and telemetrycapabilities are implemented and continuously improved across a multi-tenant multi-cloud environment.
• Lead efforts to improveservice reliability platform resilience disaster recovery readiness and operational performancefor mission-critical workloads.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of high-qualitytechnical documentation architecture artifacts standard operating procedures governance materials knowledge base content and technical advisories.
• Identify and responsibly implement opportunities to leveragegenerative AI and intelligent automationto improve engineering productivity consistency speed and operational effectiveness within approved security and compliance boundaries.
• Manage organizational priorities staffing delivery planning cross-functional dependencies and execution risk to ensure successful delivery of both strategic initiatives and day-to-day operational commitments.

• Proven leadership experience managingDevOps cloud infrastructure platform engineering or SRE teamsin complex enterprise or regulated environments.
• Deep expertise inAWSfoundational and advanced services includingEC2 S3 IAM Route 53 VPC and related networking security and automation capabilities.
• Deep expertise inAzurefoundational services includingVirtual Networks Application Gateway Storage Accounts Virtual Machines Load Balancer and Resource Groups.
• Strong expertise inGCPfoundational services includingProjects Compute Engine GKE Cloud Storage and VPC.
• Expert-level proficiency inTerraform including module architecture reusable design patterns state management policy integration and multi-cloud deployment strategies.
• Strong experience leadingCI/CD transformation and infrastructure automation maturityacross engineering organizations.
• Strong scripting and automation skills usingPython Bash and related tooling.
• Experience withRBAC identity provisioning secrets management and access governance including integration with enterprise identity and security controls.
• Strong understanding ofplatform engineering SRE principles and service reliability practices including SLAs SLOs error budgets and operational metrics.
• Strong investigative and troubleshooting capabilities acrosscloud infrastructure distributed systems Linux platforms and network configurations.
• Experience withobservability centralized logging telemetry and log processingin cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge ofnetworking fundamentals including IP routing subnetting DNS load balancing firewalls and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems expertise includingdeployment hardening performance tuning patching and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with enterprise workflow and service management platforms such asServiceNow and Jira.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and communicate effectively across executive technical operational and customer stakeholder groups.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 yearsof experience incloud infrastructure DevOps site reliability engineering platform engineering or related technical disciplines.
• 5 yearsof experience leading or managing technical teams in aDevOps infrastructure cloud engineering or platform operationsenvironment.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with technologies such asTerraform Ansible Python CI/CD platforms Vault Kubernetes Docker and identity/access management solutions.
• Strong experience administering and securingUnix/Linux systemsin enterprise or cloud environments.
• Strong experience withnetworking distributed systems and cloud operationsin highly available production environments.
• Demonstrated success leading teams responsible forsecure scalable and highly automated infrastructure platforms.

• Experience leading teams responsible forlarge-scale distributed multi-cloud platformssupporting mission-critical workloads.
• Demonstrated success building and scalinginfrastructure automation and platform engineering programsin regulated compliance-driven or security-sensitive environments.
• Experience supportinggovernment national security defense or critical infrastructure customers.
• Strong background inincident command operational excellence service reliability and continuous service improvement.
• Experience implementingDevSecOps controls compliance automation and policy-as-codein cloud environments.
• Ability to operate effectively as both astrategic leader and a technically credible engineering partner.
• Proven track record of drivingstandardization automation resilience and engineering maturityacross infrastructure operations.
• Strong problem-solving ability sound judgment and a high degree of ownership accountability and execution focus.

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Requisition ID: 459620 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Management Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid