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Our client, located in San Diego, CA, is currently in need of a Sr SAP Platform Consultant for a 6 month contract. The consultant will work remote with up to 3 onsite trips per year to San Diego, CA in support of the build, deployment, hardening and operations of their SAP 2.0 platform across Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure Local and AKS environments. We are seeking a hands-on senior engineer to help continue the development, care, feeding, deployment, and support of our SAP 2.0 platform. This role spans platform engineering, software development, automation, infrastructure, and SAP operations. The ideal candidate can design and build delivery pipelines, container images, Helm-based deployments, and operational tooling while also supporting production platform reliability, security, and lifecycle management.
Job Responsibility:
Design, build, and enhance the SAP 2.0 platform for containerized SAP workloads and supporting platform services
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, validation, release, deployment, and promotion of SAP platform components
Create and support hardened container images, Dockerfiles, runtime patterns, and deployment artifacts for SAP services and associated tooling
Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, OpenShift templates, and YAML-based configuration across environments
Write and maintain automation and support tooling in Bash and Go for provisioning, startup orchestration, health checks, troubleshooting, and platform operations
Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot workloads in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Local, and Azure Kubernetes Service environments
Work closely with SAP, infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to ensure reliable service delivery and production support
Support operational excellence through documentation, runbooks, standards, observability, and incident response readiness
Help define scalable, secure, and repeatable engineering practices for hybrid and cloud-connected SAP platform deployments
Requirements:
Active DoD Secret or higher clearance
Ability to work onsite in San Diego up to 3 weeks per year for a week at a time
Strong development mindset with experience building internal platform tooling and deployment automation
Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and hands-on experience implementing build and release pipelines
Strong Bash scripting skills for automation, administration, operational support, and runtime control
Working proficiency in Go for platform utilities, automation tools, services, or controllers
Strong experience writing and maintaining Dockerfiles and container image build processes
Strong experience developing and maintaining Helm charts
Strong understanding of YAML for Kubernetes resources, Helm values, pipelines, and configuration management
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes architecture, workload deployment, and operational troubleshooting
Strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, including enterprise cluster deployment patterns and platform operations
Experience deploying and supporting workloads in Azure Local and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Understanding of container lifecycle management, persistent volumes, secrets, config maps, ingress, services, jobs, init containers, and sidecars
Experience troubleshooting enterprise container platform issues across compute, storage, configuration, access, and networking layers
Strong Linux administration background, preferably in Red Hat or RHEL-based environments
Strong networking background, including DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, ingress and egress controls, subnets, proxy behavior, and enterprise connectivity troubleshooting
Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, hybrid cloud, firewall, DNS, routing, and load-balancing layers
Experience supporting SAP platform workloads, ideally including SAP HANA, SAP infrastructure, SAP runtime services, or SAP Basis-adjacent responsibilities
Understanding of secure platform design, production operations, hybrid deployment models, and enterprise support requirements
Nice to have:
Experience with containerized SAP landscapes and modernization of legacy SAP deployment models
Experience with GitOps, policy validation, automated promotion between environments, and release governance
Exposure to security hardening, compliance automation, and enterprise platform standards
Experience supporting stateful workloads and persistent storage patterns in Kubernetes or OpenShift
Experience writing clear technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational runbooks
Ability to work effectively across engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, and SAP functional teams