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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

 

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced and passionate DevOps Team Lead to guide and mentor a team of DevOps engineers supporting our Customer Data Platform (CDP). In this role, you will combine hands-on DevOps work with team leadership responsibilities. You will lead efforts to improve the scalability, reliability, and automation of our CI/CD infrastructure and production environments while driving innovation and best practices across the team.

 

What you'll do

 

Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence. Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems. Oversee the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring systems. Ensure production systems meet high standards for availability, performance, and security. Drive incident management and root cause analysis for critical system issues. Take ownership of team planning, prioritization, and execution of DevOps-related projects. Promote best practices in infrastructure as code, observability, and automation. Provide guidance during off-hours incidents when needed.

What you bring

 

 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. 7+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, including at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship capacity. Deep hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Strong proficiency with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure. Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred). Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions. Solid experience in system monitoring, logging, and performance tuning. Strong Bash scripting skills; additional experience in Python, Java, or Go is a plus. Familiarity with NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.) and event-streaming systems (Kafka, Spark). A strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Comfortable working from our Budapest office 3 times per week.

Bonus Points For

 

Previous experience managing data lakes or analytics platforms Passion for mentoring and growing engineering talent. Experience leading DevOps transformations or scaling DevOps teams. A proactive and ownership-driven mindset. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment

 

 

 

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 403758  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Management  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.