Sovereign Cloud Security Engineer Expert

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Engage 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.
• Inspire innovation and drive execution of disciplined and standardized security processes and tools addressing mission-critical capability gaps and opportunities for maximized efficiency.
• Help identify trade-offs in security deployment plans and any key day-to-day operational decisions impacting infrastructure investments significantly.
• Help the team to 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 our infrastructure management on the global scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD tools, and GIT is required.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage through ambiguities while being innovative and collaborative.
• Strong analytical research and technology skills and the willingness to learn new topics quickly.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong cultural awareness and intercultural competencies.
• Persistence, self-motivation and willingness to work under pressure.
• Proven ability to deliver against challenging timelines.

Skills

• Provision and support new and existing security cloud services through Terraform.
• Proven ability to produce documentation for processes and procedures.
• Proven ability to work and lead in cross-architecture teams.
• Capability to influence without formal authority.

Benefits

Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.