Avantra is the leading AIOps platform for SAP operations - built to give enterprises and managed service providers control, visibility, and automation across hybrid SAP landscapes. We help SAP teams run faster, safer, and smarter - whether they’re on ECC, S/4HANA, RISE, or SaaS.
We’re now expanding our platform with a new Security Operations (SecOps) for SAP capability - combining security observability, compliance automation, and intelligent remediation to close the operational gap SAP leaves behind.
This role will be a founding architect for that product.
Key Responsibilities
Product & Strategy
Define and evolve the security and compliance product roadmap in partnership with Product Management and Engineering.
Translate operational pain points (audit readiness, certificate expiry, vulnerability patching) into automated, scalable product capabilities.
Shape the security data model and integration architecture (SAP systems, BTP, SIEM, and HotNews feeds).
Partner with the AI team to extend Avantra AIR into AI-driven root cause and remediation for security events.
Own the definition of security observability dashboards and reporting aligned to frameworks (ISO27001, NIST, SOC2, SAP Security Baseline).
Execution
Develop proof-of-concepts for new SecOps features (e.g. automated certificate renewal, HotNews relevance scoring, SAP Note remediation).
Guide the engineering team in implementing security automations and compliance checks.
Collaborate with design to ensure the user experience simplifies security for SAP operators, not security experts.
Validate new features directly with customers, ensuring we’re solving the right problems for auditors, operators, and CISOs alike.
Thought Leadership
Represent Avantra in customer and analyst discussions on SAP security operations.
Benchmark competitor offerings and identify opportunities for product differentiation in SAP hybrid and RISE environments.
Contribute to internal enablement: helping pre-sales, GTM, and customer success articulate the value of security automation within Avantra.
Requirements
Deep SAP security expertise, ideally gained in enterprise operations, managed services, or SAP audit environments.
Strong understanding of SAP authorization concepts, user provisioning, and security baselines across ECC, S/4HANA, and BTP.
Familiarity with security frameworks (ISO27001, SOC2, NIST, SAP Security Baseline).
Hands-on experience with SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, or other observability and automation tools.
Proven ability to connect security concepts to productized capabilities - not just internal controls.
Scripting or low-code automation experience (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Avantra automations, or Ansible).
Excellent communication skills - you can explain complex security issues to both engineers and executives.
Avantra is a high growth tech company with 23 years of Swiss precision engineering coupled with the energy of a start-up. Our product is the leading AIOps platform for SAP operations, enabling customers to achieve hyperautomation success. Our customers are large multinational enterprises and household names, including national and global managed service providers. We have teams based across Switzerland, Germany, UK, US and Eastern Europe.
Our culture is something we are incredibly proud of and strive to protect. We live our values of Be Caring, Embrace Challenge and Stay Curious every day through company mindfulness sessions, wellbeing days and retaining a family feel. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?
This exciting role offers the opportunity to be involved in a high growth software company and will present significant opportunities for personal growth:
Competitive Salary
Competitive holiday & benefits package
Remote working
1 Avantra wellbeing holiday day
Learning & development programme
This role is intended to be a remote role.
Occasional travel for customer visits, company and team gatherings is likely.
