{"id":1196488,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sap-sap-ns2-director-cloud-infrastructure-devsecops","title":"SAP NS2 Director, Cloud Infrastructure & DevSecOps","company":{"id":80,"name":"SAP","domain":"sap.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sap-software-solutions","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":176300,"max":374200,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":374200},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab","optional":false},{"name":"Google GKE","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":false},{"name":"SRE","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-02","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T18:48:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":22,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":22},"description":"We help the world run better\nAt SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.\nCOMPANY DESCRIPTION\nSAP is the global market leader for business software and related services, and SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.\nThis position requires access to customer data; Must be a U.S. citizen.\nSAP NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorships for this role. All internals must have manager’s approval to transfer.\nRole Overview\nSAP NS2 is seeking an accomplished Director, DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of our secure cloud infrastructure and automation capabilities. This leader will own a critical function responsible for enabling highly available, scalable, compliant, and automation-driven cloud environments that support SAP products and services across a diverse customer base, including local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as private sector organizations supporting government-related missions.\nThis role is designed for a seasoned technology leader with deep expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, site reliability practices, and secure operations at scale. The successful candidate will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for designing, building, and operating provider-agnostic infrastructure solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, while driving standardization, resilience, and continuous improvement across the platform lifecycle.\nThe ideal candidate combines executive-level leadership, strong engineering judgment, operational discipline, and hands-on technical credibility. This individual will play a key role in advancing SAP NS2’s cloud maturity by scaling infrastructure automation, strengthening reliability and security practices, and ensuring mission-critical environments meet demanding performance, compliance, and customer expectations.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead, mentor, and scale a high-performing DevOps and cloud platform engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nDefine and execute the strategic roadmap for cloud infrastructure, platform automation, operational maturity, and engineering standardization across a multi-cloud ecosystem.\nServe as the senior technical and people leader for infrastructure engineering, balancing long-term platform strategy with near-term operational execution.\nOversee the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of secure, scalable, resilient infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, with a strong emphasis on Terraform, reusable modules, policy-driven automation, and platform consistency.\nDrive the design and operational governance of provider-agnostic infrastructure patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP to support secure, repeatable, and compliant deployments.\nLead the evolution of configuration management and post-provisioning automation practices using Ansible and related tooling to support customer environments at scale.\nEstablish and enforce engineering best practices for GitLab-based source control, branching strategy, peer review, release governance, CI/CD, and change management across multiple repositories and teams.\nProvide leadership for the deployment, operation, and continuous improvement of containerized and orchestrated platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security.\nPartner closely with product engineering, security, compliance, architecture, operations, and customer-facing teams to deliver infrastructure solutions aligned with business priorities, customer commitments, and regulatory requirements.\nChampion DevSecOps and security-by-design principles, ensuring security, governance, and compliance controls are embedded into infrastructure architecture, automation pipelines, and operational processes.\nDrive operational excellence through mature incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, service restoration, and post-incident improvement practices.\nProvide executive oversight for troubleshooting and resolving complex infrastructure, platform, networking, and connectivity issues across hosted and customer-connected environments.\nEnsure robust observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities are implemented and continuously improved across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment.\nLead efforts to improve service reliability, platform resilience, disaster recovery readiness, and operational performance for mission-critical workloads.\nOversee the development and maintenance of high-quality technical documentation, architecture artifacts, standard operating procedures, governance materials, knowledge base content, and technical advisories.\nIdentify and responsibly implement opportunities to leverage generative AI and intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity, consistency, speed, and operational effectiveness within approved security and compliance boundaries.\nManage organizational priorities, staffing, delivery planning, cross-functional dependencies, and execution risk to ensure successful delivery of both strategic initiatives and day-to-day operational commitments.\nKnowledge and Skills\nProven leadership experience managing DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE teams in complex enterprise or regulated environments.\nDeep expertise in AWS foundational and advanced services, including EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, VPC, and related networking, security, and automation capabilities.\nDeep expertise in Azure foundational services, including Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, Storage Accounts, Virtual Machines, Load Balancer, and Resource Groups.\nStrong expertise in GCP foundational services, including Projects, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, and VPC.\nExpert-level proficiency in Terraform, including module architecture, reusable design patterns, state management, policy integration, and multi-cloud deployment strategies.\nStrong experience leading CI/CD transformation and infrastructure automation maturity across engineering organizations.\nStrong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, and related tooling.\nExperience with RBAC, identity provisioning, secrets management, and access governance, including integration with enterprise identity and security controls.\nStrong understanding of platform engineering, SRE principles, and service reliability practices, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational metrics.\nStrong investigative and troubleshooting capabilities across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Linux platforms, and network configurations.\nExperience with observability, centralized logging, telemetry, and log processing in cloud-native and hybrid environments.\nStrong knowledge of networking fundamentals, including IP routing, subnetting, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.\nStrong Linux systems expertise, including deployment, hardening, performance tuning, patching, and troubleshooting.\nFamiliarity with enterprise workflow and service management platforms such as ServiceNow and Jira.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and communicate effectively across executive, technical, operational, and customer stakeholder groups.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.\n10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.\n5+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams in a DevOps, infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform operations environment.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience with technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, CI/CD platforms, Vault, Kubernetes, Docker, and identity/access management solutions.\nStrong experience administering and securing Unix/Linux systems in enterprise or cloud environments.\nStrong experience with networking, distributed systems, and cloud operations in highly available production environments.\nDemonstrated success leading teams responsible for secure, scalable, and highly automated infrastructure platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience leading teams responsible for large-scale, distributed, multi-cloud platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.\nDemonstrated success building and scaling infrastructure automation and platform engineering programs in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive environments.\nExperience supporting government, national security, defense, or critical infrastructure customers.\nStrong background in incident command, operational excellence, service reliability, and continuous service improvement.\nExperience implementing DevSecOps controls, compliance automation, and policy-as-code in cloud environments.\nAbility to operate effectively as both a strategic leader and a technically credible engineering partner.\nProven track record of driving standardization, automation, resilience, and engineering maturity across infrastructure operations.\nStrong problem-solving ability, sound judgment, and a high degree of ownership, accountability, and execution focus.\nBring out your best\nSAP 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.\nWe win with inclusion\nSAP’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 world.\nSAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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: .\nFor SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. 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