Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP

1. Culture of collaboration: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
2. Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.
3. Gain visibility: with SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What you’ll do

Position Title: SAP iXp Intern - DevOps Engineer

Location: Reston, VA

Expected Start Date: June 2025

Contract Duration: 6 months

Work Hours: 40 hours per week; Full-time

Are you passionate about technology and eager to dive into the world of Cloud Native engineering? We’re looking for curious, motivated intern candidates who are ready to learn, build, and make an impact in a fast-paced DevOps environment. Whether you're just getting started or already exploring tech projects on your own — we want to hear from you!

During the program, you may gain experience with some or all of the following:

• Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD & GitOps: Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Concourse
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Security & Identity: Vault, OAuth2, OIDC, SSO
• Modern Dev Workflows: VS Code, Git, REST APIs, YAML
• Emerging Tech: Serverless (Lambda, Cloud Functions), Service Mesh, Platform Engineering

What You’ll Learn and Accomplish
By the end of the internship, you’ll walk away with:

• Hands-on automation experience with leading cloud platforms
• Real-world knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and CI/CD workflows
• Practical experience with tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and Git
• A strong understanding of cloud-native networking, compute, and storage systems
• Hands-on experience with automating infrastructure, deployments, and operations using modern tooling
• The confidence to take on entry-level roles in cloud engineering, DevOps, or SRE

What you bring

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

Education: Information Systems, Computer Science, or other related fields and interests

Eligibility: Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation date) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s or JD/PhD program

We welcome students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds including self-taught engineers with strong interest in cloud-native tech.

We don’t expect you to know everything — just come with curiosity, drive, and the ability to work well with others. You’ll thrive here if you:

• Are comfortable using Unix-like systems via command line (Linux / macOS)
• Enjoy solving problems and working in collaborative environments
• Have a basic understanding of:
  • Virtualization and Microservices
  • Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Computing architecture (CPUs, memory, storage, etc.)

Meet your team

This isn’t your average internship. Here’s how we do things differently:

• Mentorship That Matters: You’ll be paired with a dedicated mentor who will guide your growth, answer your questions, and help you gain confidence in your skills in addition to access to a pool of experienced Engineers to help you with your learning journey
• Hands-On Projects: Start with structured learning paths and progress into meaningful, real-world engineering work alongside experienced teams
• Cloud Native Exposure: Work on cutting-edge technologies across major cloud providers and open-source tools used by top engineering teams around the world

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.

SAP 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: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity,  gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Compensation Range Transparency : SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 26-47 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits .

Requisition ID: 422202 | Work Area:Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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