Senior Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Systems Engineer with Security Clearance
We are seeking a hands-on senior engineer to help continue the development, care, feeding, deployment, and support of our SAP 2.0 platform. This role spans platform engineering, software development, automation, infrastructure, and SAP operations. The ideal candidate can design and build delivery pipelines, container images, Helm-based deployments, and operational tooling while also supporting production platform reliability, security, and lifecycle management.

This will be a hybrid position. Skill Requirements:
* Must Hold a Secret Clearance
* Build, deploy, harden, operate, and extend the SAP 2.0 platform across Kubernetes, Open Shift, 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, Open Shift 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 Open Shift, 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 Open Shift, 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, Open Shift, 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…