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.

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.

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Platform Security Engineering team. This role focuses on the engineering, automation, and operational excellence of the security tooling stack that protects our infrastructure. The right candidate is a builder; someone who has come up through DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering and brings that operational discipline to the security domain.

This is not a policy or governance role, and it is not a traditional ISSE position. You will spend your days writing code, building pipelines, automating deployments, remediating vulnerabilities on infrastructure we own, and tuning the platforms that keep our environment secure. You will partner closely with platform, DevOps, and host-owning teams, but the engineering work is yours to lead.

Key Responsibilities

Security Tooling Operations

• Platform ownership: Operate, tune, and integrate the organization’s security tooling stack, including but not limited to Tenable Nessus, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security, and ThreatConnect, ensuring each platform is healthy, current, and delivering value.
• Agent and sensor coverage validation: Validate that endpoint agents and sensors are deployed, communicating, and properly configured across applicable infrastructure. Build coverage reporting and identify gaps without taking on installation responsibility for hosts owned by other teams.
• Tooling patching and lifecycle management: Own the patching, upgrade, and lifecycle management of the security tools and platforms we operate. Maintain version currency, plan upgrade windows, and ensure scanners, managers, and consoles stay within supported release windows.
• API integration and automation: Build custom integrations between security platforms and the broader engineering ecosystem to include ticketing, reporting, alert routing, CI/CD gating, and SOAR-style workflows.

Vulnerability Management & Remediation

• Remediation on managed infrastructure: Drive vulnerability remediation across hosts and infrastructure that the team owns or operates. Prioritize using risk context (exploitability, exposure, asset sensitivity), implement fixes, and track findings through to closure.
• Scan operations: Operate and tune vulnerability scanners (Tenable Nessus and equivalent) so that scan coverage is accurate, credentialed scans succeed, and other teams have reliable vulnerability data for the hosts they own.
• Reporting and SLA enforcement: Produce vulnerability reporting that surfaces trends, exception requests, and SLA performance. Partner with host-owning teams when findings live outside our managed scope.
• Preventative controls: Where possible, shift remediation left, to include hardened base images, IaC scanning, golden AMIs, and image bake pipelines that prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production rather than chasing them after the fact.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• IaC for security infrastructure: Design and maintain Terraform modules that provision, configure, and update security tooling infrastructure across cloud environments. Apply the same code-review, testing, and promotion discipline used for any other engineering deliverable.
• Deployment automation: Automate agent and sensor deployment through bash scripting, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) runbooks, and CI/CD pipelines. Build artifacts and runbooks that host-owning teams can self-serve against the systems they own.
• CI/CD integration: Move agent installer artifacts, runbook content, and scanner configuration into version-controlled pipelines that run automated validation, signature verification, and post-deploy health checks before promoting changes.
• Scripting and tooling: Write production-quality automation in Python and Bash. Build internal tools and utilities that make the team faster and the work more repeatable.

Compliance & Audit Support

• Framework alignment: Configure and operate security tooling to support compliance against CMMC, NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. Produce evidence on demand and ensure scanners, agents, and configurations align with the controls our auditors care about.
• Evidence automation: Build automated evidence collection where the platforms support it, such as control mapping, posture reporting, and exception tracking so audit cycles do not become manual fire drills.
• Continuous monitoring: Operate the technical controls that satisfy continuous monitoring requirements: vulnerability scan cadence, agent health reporting, configuration drift detection, and asset inventory accuracy.

Scope Boundaries

Clear scope is part of how this team operates at scale. The role is engineering-focused, and the boundaries below are deliberate.

• In scope: Engineering, configuration, and operation of the security tooling stack; patching of the tooling and supporting platforms; vulnerability remediation on infrastructure the team owns; coverage validation; deployment automation provided as a capability for host-owning teams to consume.
• Out of scope: Installing agents on hosts owned by other teams, patching infrastructure outside of the team’s operational control, and ISSE-style policy authorship. The team builds the automation; host owners run it on the systems they own.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or a closely related infrastructure engineering role.
• Hands-on operational experience with at least two of the following platforms: Tenable Nessus, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security,etc.
• Demonstrated experience with vulnerability management and remediation such as scan operations, prioritization, patching workflows, and SLA enforcement.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash, with the ability to write production-quality automation that other engineers can read, extend, and operate.
• Practical experience with Linux system administration and Windows server fundamentals, including patching, package management, and agent troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks: CMMC, NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, ISO 27001, and SOC 2, with the ability to translate control requirements into technical configuration.
• Experience operating within at least one major cloud (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP also acceptable), including patching and lifecycle management of cloud-hosted infrastructure.
• Comfort working in a Git-based workflow with code review, branching strategies, and pull-request driven change management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Infrastructure as Code (preferred): Production experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, Terragrunt, or equivalent patterns for managing security infrastructure across environments.
• CI/CD experience (nice-to-have): Experience designing and operating GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins pipelines, including pipeline-driven validation, signed artifact promotion, and integration with security platforms.
• Kubernetes (nice-to-have): Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or AKS), including container security fundamentals, manifest management, and operating security tooling against containerized workloads.
• AWS Systems Manager: Experience with SSM documents, associations, and Run Command for orchestrating tasks across managed instance fleets.
• Containerization: Experience with Docker, custom images, and image hardening pipelines.
• Experience operating in FedRAMP or other compliance-driven environments.
• Experience with FedRAMP boundary tooling, GovCloud, or equivalent regulated environments.
• Familiarity with additional security tooling such as WebInspect, Trellix, or Centrify.
• Background in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering with a pivot into security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field. Equivalent experience accepted.
• Relevant certifications: AWS Security Specialty, CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator, Tenable Certified Operator, Terraform Associate, CKA/CKS, or similar.

What Sets You Apart

You are a security engineer with a builder’s mindset. You came up through DevOps or infrastructure and you bring that operational DNA to security work. You write code, you ship automation, and you partner with engineering rather than gatekeep. You understand that security tooling is only as good as the discipline behind its operation, such as the patching cadence, the coverage validation, the integration plumbing, the runbook automation. You are pragmatic about scope: you do the work that lives within your team’s control, you build capabilities that other teams can self-serve, and you do not take on accountability for systems you cannot operate.

You are equally comfortable in a Terraform module, a CI/CD pipeline, a Bash script, and a Tenable scan policy. When you find a manual process, you replace it with code. When you find drift between what a compliance framework requires and what the platform is actually doing, you close the gap in configuration rather than in a spreadsheet.

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
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Requisition ID: 453749 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid