SAP Platform Consultant

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Required Skills:

• 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.

Development and Automation

• 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.

Containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Platforms

• 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.

Infrastructure, Networking, and SAP Platform Experience

• 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.

Desired Skills:

• 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.

ClearBridge Technology Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We offer excellent benefits and compensation packages.
The expected hourly rate range for this role is: $85 - 105 per hour
The posted range is an estimate, the actual compensation offer will be based on the candidate's experience, skills, qualifications and will be in line with internal equity.