SAP

Requisition ID: 425084

Work Area: Software-Design and Development

Expected Travel: 0%

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Career Level: T3-3

Original Posting Date: 06/16/2025

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Work Model: Hybrid work model

Purpose and Objective:

Ariba, Inc. seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer at our Palo Alto, CA location to be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of customer environments in Cloud of respective product lines and to ensure the delivery according to defined Service Level Agreements.

Expectations and Tasks:

Have extended knowledge in various technologies (e.g. database, platform) used by development and operations. Define automation framework and drive automation and standardization. Ensure smooth operations and maximize uptime. Maintain critical systems operating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and supporting technologies. Create Ansible playbooks for public cloud deployments and management in GCP and AWS. Migrate applications and databases to GCP. Define the product delivery roadmap to bring it into production. Execute technical tasks to ensure efficient delivery of system landscape support core tasks in the assigned functional areas of responsibility. Independent assurance of effective system operations along the software lifecycle. Support knowledge management in the team and between operations and development.

Education and Occupational Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:

Experience must involve four (4) years in the following:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration.

Experience must involve two (2) years in the following:

• Public cloud migrations and operations, including GCP and AWS;
• Backup and storage Management using Actifio, NetApp storage array, Nimble storage array and 3PAR storage array;
• Infrastructure as code (IaC) Ansible, Ansible Tower and Terraform;
• Hashicorp Vault Management, GitHub Management and Privileged Access Management (PAM);
• CI/CD using Jenkins and Circle CI; and
• Virtualization using VMware and Hyper-V.

Travel: N/A

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.

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Compensation Range Transparency: The annual base salary range for this position is $194,792 - $259,336. SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is $194,792 - $294,700. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

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