Lead Engineer

Who We Are

At Maersk we are modernising our SAP platform landscape to deliver secure scalable resilient and intelligent business operations. SAP Basis DevOps is a critical capability that enables platform automation cloud transformation operational excellence and AI-driven engineering practices across our global SAP ecosystem.

The Position

As a Lead Engineer - SAP Basis DevOps you will lead the engineering automation reliability and continuous improvement of SAP platforms across on-premises and Azure cloud environments. You will combine deep SAP Basis expertise with DevOps platform engineering and AI-enabled operations to deliver highly available secure and automated SAP services.

You will lead a team of engineers drive platform strategy enable cloud transformation and champion modern engineering practices that improve productivity reliability and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

SAP Platform Engineering

• Lead SAP Basis operations for SAP ECC S/4HANA BW PI/PO Solution Manager SAP BTP and HANA environments.
• Manage installations upgrades migrations refreshes patching performance optimisation and lifecycle management.
• Ensure platform availability scalability security and operational excellence across SAP landscapes.

DevOps Automation & Cloud

• Drive DevOps adoption using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Automate provisioning monitoring patching compliance and release management activities.
• Lead SAP cloud transformation initiatives on Microsoft Azure.
• Establish platform standards reusable automation and engineering best practices.

AI-Enabled Operations

• Drive adoption of AI Generative AI and AIOps capabilities across SAP platform operations.
• Leverage GitHub Copilot Microsoft Copilot Azure OpenAI and enterprise AI tools to improve engineering productivity and operational effectiveness.
• Implement AI-assisted monitoring root cause analysis anomaly detection capacity planning and predictive maintenance.
• Integrate AI capabilities into DevOps workflows to improve release quality automation and operational insights.
• Ensure responsible secure and compliant use of AI technologies in platform operations.

Reliability Security & Governance

• Establish monitoring observability incident management and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Lead root cause analysis problem management and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with security audit risk and governance requirements.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor a team of SAP Basis DevOps engineers.
• Provide technical leadership coaching and engineering governance.
• Collaborate with SAP Infrastructure Security Cloud Data and Product teams to deliver platform capabilities.
• Influence engineering decisions and support enterprise transformation initiatives.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong experience in SAP Basis administration and SAP platform engineering.
• Proven expertise in Azure DevOps automation CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep understanding of SAP HANA platform reliability security and high-availability architectures.
• Experience leading SAP cloud transformation and modernisation initiatives.
• Hands-on experience applying AI and Generative AI technologies to engineering operations automation or DevOps processes.
• Strong leadership stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Outcome-oriented mindset focused on reliability automation innovation and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering IT or related field.
• 12-15 years of experience in SAP Basis Platform Engineering Infrastructure Operations or DevOps including leadership of large-scale SAP transformation initiatives.
• Strong expertise in SAP ECC S/4HANA BW PI/PO SAP BTP Solution Manager and SAP HANA/Oracle administration including upgrades migrations performance tuning and lifecycle management.
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD DevSecOps Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible) and automation using PowerShell Python or Shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience managing SAP workloads on Microsoft Azure with knowledge of HA/DR security and platform reliability.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor Grafana Splunk or equivalent.
• Experience leveraging AI and AIOps capabilities including GitHub Copilot Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI to enhance automation operations and engineering productivity.

Strong leadership stakeholder management communication and problem-solving skills with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race colour gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy or parental leave veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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