IT Technology Services Senior Specialist - DB Expert

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Meet your team:

The Enhanced Operation Service is part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery organization. This is a dedicated team which will focus on leading and optimizing strategic customers’ end-to-end delivery and operation model, during the customer’s cloud transformation journey. We provide a spectrum of cloud deployment options for our customers with our own infrastructure, our partners and through public cloud infrastructures. Enhanced Operations Service Specialist plays a pivotal role within the SAP ECS – Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) organization, serving as a trusted advisor responsible for safeguarding and optimizing strategic customers' investments in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.

What you'll do: 

We are looking for an experienced SAP technology professional experts for the Enhanced Operations Service (EOS)  team who should have a proven track record in at least in one of the areas like SAP Basis, HANA DB, Server management, Critical Situation Handling, Project Management, with a strong technical and process background.

 A customer first mindset is a must.

As an Enhanced Operations Service Specialist - you are responsible for:

• Ensuring Day to Day quality service delivery and defining, tracking, and achieving various ambitious service KPI and SLA’s.
• Technically skilled in Database Technologies like HANA/ASE/MSSQL – with expert level knowledge in any one of the databases.
• Participate in Major incident handling, troubleshoot service request failures, downtime extensions, long running ongoing incidents for a customer.
• Quick responses during escalations, take proactive steps to avoid escalations, identifying and driving initiatives to improve the operation and stability for our customer system.
• Root Cause analysis for Service requests failures/outages, performance issues – continuous improvement methodologies
• Analyse root-causes of the failures (if known) in achieving the KPIS and define a corrective action plan, with well-defined mitigation steps.
• Coordinate and orchestrate the work between the various teams with Strong collaboration with other units within and outside Enterprise Cloud Service units.
• Bring in Continuous Improvement Initiatives, to address customer pain points and enhancements in the Service Delivery 
• Process improvement initiatives for daily operational activities
• Streamline standard operating procedures by focussing on automation enhancements.
• Proactive Operation services for the customer and service on-demand with timely alert reduction program to all the stakeholders involving the customer.

What you bring: 

• 8+ years of related professional experience
• Strong experience as Database Administrator in Global Operations team (primarily on SAP HANA/ASE/MSSQL Platforms, however any database technology is welcome)
• Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
• DB installations and upgrade, Planning, setup, and implementation.
• Providing technical expertise and support in optimizing and tuning of Systems, Performance Optimization.
• DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability, and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must.
• Experience in Problem Management, Root cause analysis methodologies

• Cloud knowledge (e.g., experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP)
• Professional Certification of Database Platforms with exposure to Project Management tasks including PMP and ITIL certification.
• Capacity to continuously acquire new knowledge in an independent and proactive way.
• Good analytical and solution-oriented thinking
• Very good communication and networking skills
• Experience of safeguarding customer relationship.
• Strong customer service focus
• Very good English language skill.

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​Bring out your best

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 401375  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.