Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer - SAP BTP & FedRAMP

Insight Global; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a senior Platform Operations engineer with deep SAP BTP expertise to govern and drive operational excellence across the BTP service landscape in a FedRAMP-authorized environment. You will own end-to-end service accountability, define governance standards, and lead incident triage and change control with SAP support.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security (ISSO), and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with federal requirements, while mentoring junior

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability.
• Experience deploying and operating in a Kubernetes-based environment.
• Expertise with Git.
• Backend SRE / Platform Engineer for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration, containerized workloads, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with upgrades, patching, and enterprise ITSM/change management.
• SAP BTP experience.
• Experience with FedRAMP or federal cloud security and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end operational accountability for all BTP services across all landscapes within the FedRAMP-authorized landscape.
• Serve as the lead service owner for the entire BTP portfolio — the single point of accountability for service availability, integrity, performance, and compliance.
• Maintain a comprehensive, current understanding of all provisioned BTP services, subaccounts, directories, entitlements, and global account configurations.
• Define and enforce operational standards, configuration baselines, change control procedures, and governance policies aligned to federal security requirements.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for platform incidents, conducting root cause analysis, coordinating remediation, and driving permanent corrective actions.
• Own and manage service availability SLAs across all BTP-hosted services, proactively identifying risks and mitigations.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for all BTP services, including uptime, performance, throughput, and error tracking.
• Develop and test business continuity and disaster recovery runbooks for critical BTP services.
• Lead incident response for platform-level outages, coordinating triage and resolution across teams and SAP support.
• Own upgrade and patch lifecycle for all BTP services, coordinating with SAP and validating patches within FedRAMP environment.
• Coordinate with SAP to validate patches, manage pre-production validation, and ensure secure deployments.
• Monitor SAP Security Patch Day advisories and release notes to plan remediation actions.
• Operate and maintain deployed platform extensions with proper security review and change control processes.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Business teams to align operations with requirements.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Kubernetes

Git

Backend SRE

SAP BTP

FedRAMP

Cloud security

Job description

Insight Global seeks a senior Platform Operations engineer with deep SAP BTP expertise to govern and drive operational excellence across the BTP service landscape in a FedRAMP-authorized environment. You will own end-to-end service accountability, define governance standards, and lead incident triage and change control with SAP support.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security (ISSO), and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with federal requirements, while mentoring junior