Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer Location: Herndon, VA, US, 20171 Department: Information Technology Job Description: We help the world run better At 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. COMPANY DESCRIPTION SAP 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. Must be a U.S. citizen; this position requires access to customer data. SAP NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorships for this role. All internals must have manager’s approval to transfer. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to lead security efforts across our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production workloads. You will be hands-on, building security automation, and hardening multi-cloud environments. This role partners closely with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Corporate IT, and Product teams to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle. You'll contribute to security tooling strategy, build policy-as-code frameworks, and drive security automation across cloud-native infrastructure. A key requirement for this position is deep, demonstrated expertise in DevSecOps practices — including designing and operating security automation within CI/CD pipelines, implementing policy-as-code, and integrating cloud-native security tooling into developer workflows at scale. PLATFORM EXPERTISE (REQUIRED) This role requires hands-on experience integrating and operating cloud security tooling within modern DevSecOps workflows. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate depth across multiple areas during the interview process. - - Configured and tuned cloud security policies, rules, and risk scoring to align with organizational risk appetite and compliance frameworks - Built custom integrations using security platform APIs, including automated workflows for ticket creation, alert routing, CI/CD gating, and reporting - Leveraged CSPM, CIEM, vulnerability scanning, container/Kubernetes security, and IaC scanning capabilities in production - Experience with EDR/XDR platforms such as CrowdStrike Falcon for endpoint detection, threat hunting, and incident response across cloud and hybrid environments - Ability to design and operate vulnerability management programs including scan scheduling, prioritization, SLA enforcement, and remediation tracking - Experience with Dynatrace or equivalent APM/observability platforms for infrastructure monitoring, application performance analysis, and security-relevant telemetry - Ability to correlate observability data with security findings to improve detection, triage, and incident response workflows - Experience with Tenable (Tenable.io, Nessus, or Tenable.sc) for vulnerability scanning automation, including API-driven scan scheduling, asset discovery, reporting pipelines, and integration into CI/CD or remediation workflows - Experience with Trend Micro (Cloud One, Vision One, or Deep Security) for automated workload and endpoint protection, including policy deployment and management, container security, and integration with orchestration and incident response tooling KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - - Cloud Security Architecture: Assist with security reviews across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-based workloads. Develop scalable mitigation strategies and secure baselines. - DevSecOps Integration: Build automation, policy-as-code, and security tooling that enables development teams to shift left. Integrate security findings into CI/CD workflows, IaC pipelines, and developer feedback loops. - Vulnerability Management: Drive vulnerability management and remediation across cloud and container environments. Prioritize issues using risk context, implement mitigations, and design preventative controls across software supply chains. - Infrastructure Hardening: Design and implement secure baselines for cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE/AKS), IAM, and network architecture. Enforce guardrails through policy-as-code. - Security Tooling: Support the configuration, optimization, and integration of CNAPP platforms as a core component of our cloud security stack. Drive adoption, tune policies, build API integrations, and ensure CNAPP capabilities are fully leveraged across the organization. - Cross-Functional Partnership: Build deep partnerships with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, Product, and SecOps teams. Enable secure-by-design solutions without becoming a bottleneck. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - - 7+ years of experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud security operations - Strong DevOps/infrastructure background: you’ve built and operated CI/CD pipelines, managed Kubernetes clusters, and automated infrastructure - Deep AWS cloud security expertise (equivalent Azure/GCP experience also considered with some AWS proficiency) - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security (EKS, GKE, or AKS) and container security principles - Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, or Pulumi - Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, Shell, and/or HCL - Proven ability to lead threat modeling exercises and translate findings into actionable controls - Deep understanding of IAM, cloud identity, and least-privilege principles at scale - Practical knowledge of web application security fundamentals (OWASP Top 10) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - - Experience building custom API integrations for reporting, automation, or SOAR workflows - Experience with FedRAMP or other compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 R5, CMMC) - Background in SRE or platform engineering with a pivot into security - Experience with complementary security tooling: SIEM/SOAR platforms, EDR, network security - AWS, Azure, GCP cloud certifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (equivalent experience accepted) - Experience working with remote, globally distributed teams WHAT SETS YOU APART You’re a security engineer with a builder’s mindset. You’ve come up through DevOps or infrastructure and you bring that operational DNA to everything you do. You automate, you ship, you iterate, and you partner with engineering rather than gatekeep. You can walk us through a deployment you’ve architected, explain your policy tuning philosophy, and show us how you’ve used risk data to drive real remediation outcomes. 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 world. 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