SAP iXp Intern - Cloud Platform Engineer

SAP • Chicago, IL

23d • Hybrid

About The Position

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers. This is more than an internship, it’s the foundation for a career built on connection, creativity, and impact. As a Cloud Platform Engineer and member of our CloudOps team, you will be at the forefront of architecting, securely designing and running the next generation of SAP Fieldglass platforms. You will be part of a high-performance team which continuously improves the reliability of critical systems, working closely with development and operations teams. The ideal candidate will take a proactive approach, designing telemetry strategies, implementing comprehensive monitoring systems, and leveraging advanced tools to gain real-time insights and identify potential issues before they escalate. By partnering and collaborating with colleagues across technology teams, you will play a key role in guiding efforts around each platform’s best practices, enrolling colleagues in your designs and building high-performance, secure and distributed global platforms at scale to support our customers.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills and presentation skills
• 2+ years of experience designing & implementing production-grade services in public cloud providers
• 2+ years of experience scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, NodeJS, etc.)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Dynatrace, Elastic, Splunk, etc.)
• Experienced with logging, metrics, traces, monitoring and alerting
• Experience in public cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures, patterns and service offerings across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and SAP Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of container runtimes and formats such as Docker and OCI
• Exceptional experience with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, custom resource definitions and Kubernetes operators (CKAD, CKA or CKS is a plus)
• Working knowledge of SAP Gardener Platform
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Travis, Argo), with a GitOps mindset of leveraging automation over manual interference
• Comfortable adapting to dynamic technologies, a self-starter, and a passion for technology and cloud
• Familiarity with DevOps, observability and agile software development roles and concepts

Nice To Haves

• CKAD, CKA or CKS is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run and analyze the platform strategy for microservices and traditional 3-tier service architectures including IaaS, PaaS services for Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and SAP Cloud Platform.
• Analyze textual records of system-generated messages, events, and activities that offer detailed insight into system behavior, errors, and user actions
• Analyze quantitative measurements providing insights into system performance, resource utilization, response times, and error rates.
• Support in the design and development of open telemetry
• Guide research & design / PoC efforts for latest public cloud architectures.
• Engage, influence and improve our culture of learning, including participation and driving best practices and principles based on industry experience, trends and self-discovery
• Collaborate with multiple technology teams to deliver highly-available, performant and secure platforms across multiple regions
• Participating with OnCall rotation and support activities
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Great benefits
• Constant learning
• Skill growth
• Team that wants you to grow and succeed
• Personalized mentoring, coaching, and career development support
• Endless learning resources at your fingertips
• Future-ready skills from a variety of virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning sessions
• Limited benefits for employees hired into hourly or like roles subject to appliable plan/policy terms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed