Description
The Principal SAP Infrastructure Engineer builds and runs both the Cloud and On-Prem SAP Infrastructure platform as automated, secure, self-service infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and automate platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and golden paths.
- Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing to accelerate delivery and raise quality.
- Build self-service capabilities and paved roads that reduce friction for consuming teams.
- Engineer for reliability by defining SLOs, instrumenting platforms for observability and automating to reduce toil.
- Set and uphold engineering standards, secure-by-default practices and code quality within the platform.
- Contribute to incident response and drive permanent automated fixes with Reliability Engineering.
- Mentor and technically lead other engineers, including partner engineers.
- Integrate and assure supplier or managed-service components.
- Work the platform's manual task and toil backlog, converting identified candidates into automation.
- Close observability coverage gaps for the platform.
- Contribute engineering-led items to the platform backlog held by the Product Owner.
Professional Qualifications:
- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Relevant technical certifications desirable.
Area of Specialisation:
- Hands-on platform engineering in cloud, network or digital workplace.
- Automation-first and secure-by-default engineering, with an SRE mindset.
Experience Required:
- Overall 15 years and typically 8-10 years in cloud and SAP infrastructure.
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with ERP systems.
- Strong knowledge of SAP hosted on either Azure or Google Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of SAP hosted on VMware.
- Practical experience of infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, and with containers and Kubernetes.
- Track record building self-service capability that other teams adopted without hand-holding.
- Experience instrumenting for observability, defining SLOs and reducing toil through automation.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tooling.
Desirable:
- Certifications in cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness and how to optimize delivery to accommodate these critical practices