IT Technology Services Senior Specialist(409557) - Backup Automation Owner

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What you'll do:

In your role as Backup & Restore Automation Owner you are enabling the delivery of robust, downtime optimized and highly automated lifecycle management activities operated within ECS.

You will take ownership of integration scenarios and operational processes considering accelerated growth (RISE with SAP). Focus of your activities will be increasing automation along with stabilization improvements to help Operations to reduce manual effort and cost structure (lower TCO) and deliver faster services to our customers.

Following activities are part of the role:

• Contribute to cloud-like innovation, standardized maintenance activities for seamless customer experience
• Optimize and stabilize Backup lifecycle management procedures in a pro-active way leveraging analytical tools and capabilities
• Structure and coordinate activities, action plans incl. requirements engineering, prioritization, and create aligned timelines for deliverables
• Drive issue resolution together with the team and utilizing the expert network
• Manage relationship between different stakeholder groups inside and outside ECS Delivery
• Change Management tracking of technical topics in Jira
• Create and align test plans, support and perform testing/validation and roll-out activities
• Support technology-related projects in complex environment

What you bring:

• Professional experience as a technical consultant in SAP cloud implementation & migration projects or as technical project lead with customer interaction.
• Best practices experience in an SAP application / technology / solution (Netweaver)
• Knowledge in design and structuring of integrated E2E Lifecycle Management Procedures
• Project management skills
• Strong SAP BASIS and system operations know-how ideally in multi-cloud environment would be preferred
• Preferable database skills for HANA and ASE, other database vendors welcome (MAXDB, IQ, SQL Server)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness and experience working in international teams
• Ideally familiar with trending technologies and tools

Meet the team:

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) is SAP’s managed cloud offering demonstrating accelerated growth. To support our growth journey, we are searching a motivated, skilled, and value-oriented team player taking over responsibility as Automation Owner in Netweaver area with focus on scalability to strengthen our ECS Delivery Productization team.

In this role you drive standardization and automation, and you are an enabler for the operations teams to deliver in time and quality services to our customers. To achieve this, you will interface with a highly professional, global team of experts and architects from various teams inside ECS and the development organization. Further you will be part of strategic projects for introducing new technologies or tools in our environment.

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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.
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Requisition ID: 409557  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.