IT Technology Services Senior Specialist-Business Continuity Owner, Sybase ASE

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What you'll do:

In your role as Business Continuity Automation Owner – Sybase ASE 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 in Business Continuity area covering also all multi-cloud aspects (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform) with focus on Sybase ASE, Hana, MSSQL databases, High Availability, Pacemaker, cluster setup and integration scenarios 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 will be part of your role:

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

What you bring:

• Strong SAP BASIS, Sybase ASE Database administration and system operations know-how, ideally in multi-cloud environment
• Professional experience in Cloud infrastructure, system administration or as a technical consultant in SAP cloud implementation
• Expert in Business Continuity, High Availability & Disaster Recovery topics on ASE Database
• 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 analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness and experience working in international teams
• Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)

Meet your team:

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services accelerates and simplifies our customers’ business transformation by running their SAP ERP value stack with a world-class level of availability, security & resilience on their preferred cloud infrastructure. This includes Hyperscalers, their own data center, and/or SAP data centers to transform our customers into cost-effective intelligent cloud enterprises.

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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 398789  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.