Sovereign Cloud Security Engineer Expert

SAP • Reston, VA

4d • $176,300 - $374,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Security Engineer Expert (f/m/d) within the Security Engineering group in the Technology & Engineering unit of the newly formed Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations team as part of the Customer Services & Delivery board area. In this role you will become a founding member of the Technology and Engineering team. You will be engaging with existing infrastructure and product experts to help build up a globally distributed team of highly motivated individuals responsible for the secure deployment, upgrade and lifecycle management of the Sovereign Cloud non-production security infrastructure. You will inspire innovation and drive execution of disciplined and standardized security processes and tools addressing mission-critical capability gaps and opportunities for maximized efficiency. You will help identify trade-offs in security deployment plans and any key day-to-day operational decisions impacting infrastructure investments significantly. You will help the team to strengthen best practices on automated provisioning of foundational cloud infrastructure and of Sovereign Cloud ready SAP products. You will manage development and automation of security solutions in alignment with security strategy. You need to ensure the team’s knowledge base is kept consistently up-to-date with native hyperscaler capabilities and modern infrastructure management tools. Starting from this status quo, you will design security concepts for our infrastructure management on the global scale. This will involve significant coordination with the global Sovereign Cloud operations teams and our hyperscaler provider partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Ability to manage through ambiguities while being innovative and collaborative.
• Ability to take a technical approach to design specifications of large-scale networks.
• Strong analytical research and technology skills and the willingness to learn new topics quickly.
• Ability to think strategically, delivering services to meet stakeholders’ demands on a timely basis.
• Ability to mix Open Source and Commercial technologies to achieve objectives.
• Very good understanding of infrastructure and security related topics.
• Minimum 7 years of software development experience in all phases of SDLC, including hands-on experience with infrastructure, application or database migration.
• Experience deploying technical infrastructure at a global scale.
• Balanced expertise in both full stack application development and infrastructure development.
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, IAM etc. and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Strong experience in operating systems administration and security engineering.
• Working knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD tools, and GIT is required.
• Exposure to either NIST, ISO, or other compliance frameworks.
• Willingness to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Log Correlation, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Testing concepts is a plus.
• Familiarity with managing and securing Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with securing products on AWS and Azure, GCP is a plus.
• Experience with sovereign cloud is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engage with existing infrastructure and product experts to help build up a globally distributed team responsible for the secure deployment, upgrade and lifecycle management of the Sovereign Cloud non-production security infrastructure.
• Inspire innovation and drive execution of disciplined and standardized security processes and tools addressing mission-critical capability gaps and opportunities for maximized efficiency.
• Identify trade-offs in security deployment plans and key day-to-day operational decisions impacting infrastructure investments significantly.
• Strengthen best practices on automated provisioning of foundational cloud infrastructure and of Sovereign Cloud ready SAP products.
• Manage development and automation of security solutions in alignment with security strategy.
• Ensure the team’s knowledge base is kept consistently up-to-date with native hyperscaler capabilities and modern infrastructure management tools.
• Design security concepts for infrastructure management on a global scale.
• Coordinate with global Sovereign Cloud operations teams and hyperscaler provider partners.
• Provision and support new and existing security cloud services through Terraform.
• Produce documentation for processes and procedures.
• Work and lead in cross-architecture teams.
• Contribute to Open Source security projects and the greater security community.

Benefits

• Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
• Annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role: 176300-374200 USD.
• Summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior