Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud

SAP; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 374,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP Sovereign Cloud seeks an Expert Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in the Shared Management Services group. You will secure and scale the foundational platform supporting the Sovereign Cloud, working with a globally distributed team on design, deployment, and lifecycle management of the SMS platform.

You will lead reliability, security, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments, defining standards and driving AI-assisted, secure DevOps and SRE practices at

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps and/or SRE engineering.
• Proven leadership of engineering projects and cross-functional teams.
• Deep mastery of SRE principles for global, mission-critical platforms.

Responsibilities

• Secure and scale the foundational platform for SAP Sovereign Cloud.
• Lead a globally distributed team to define standards and best practices for reliability, security, and operations.
• Drive AI-assisted incident response, monitoring, and automation across multi-cloud environments.
• Own backup and disaster recovery drills and ensure readiness at scale.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

English fluent

Linux/Unix administration

Networking fundamentals

IaC automation

CI/CD

Security mindset

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Ansible

Terraform

Bash

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

Identity federation

Job description

SAP Sovereign Cloud seeks an Expert Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in the Shared Management Services group. You will secure and scale the foundational platform supporting the Sovereign Cloud, working with a globally distributed team on design, deployment, and lifecycle management of the SMS platform.

You will lead reliability, security, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments, defining standards and driving AI-assisted, secure DevOps and SRE practices at