Senior Database Engineer -SQL

 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.

What you'll do:

As Senior Database Engineer within the SAP Commerce Cloud DevOps team, you will be responsible for supporting and operating our databases in a multi-tenant application and for our many commerce customers. Leveraging best of breed technologies, you will have a direct impact on the company’s ability to succeed. You will:

• Design and implement solutions to support, operate and manage the entire fleet of our databases much more efficiently.

• Provide recommendations and assistance to customers in resolving issues and performance bottlenecks.

• Assist with performance testing and application benchmarking activities.

• Partner with other teams to define product enhancements/ specific issue resolutions etc.

• Continuous improvement of existing processes and standards.

• Participate in documenting technical solutions and improving our processes.

• Work on designing and implement automations to reduce manual intervention for database related manual maintenance/ reporting activities.

• Work closely with strategic big-name customers and provide consulting engagements regarding database performance aspects.

What you bring:

Minimum 7 years of professional experience as a Database Administrator or Database Engineer.

• Strong expertise in database management and data maintenance using SQL Server, Azure SQL or PostgreSQL.

• Proficient in SQL Server/ Azure SQL/ PostgreSQL administration, including backup and recovery procedures and database security.

• Strong expertise and proficiency with database performance tuning is a must.

• Experience and knowledge of scripting languages/automation.

• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.

• Strong experience working on a cloud platform particularly MS Azure or AWS.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers and across a dispersed team.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.

• Able to work independently with a minimum of supervision.

• Extremely customer oriented and background in customer consulting would be advantageous.

• Experience working in high availability environments (24*7) would be a bonus.

• Experience with any other databases in addition to SQL Server and PostgreSQL will be considered an asset.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Meet your team

You will be part of an international team which is globally dispersed and are technically very advanced in their respective domains. We work tirelessly to ensure the reliability and performance of all databases across our ever growing fleet is always the best in class. We partner with Product development to ensure best practices are integrated within the standard offerings. We also partner with and advise our customers to follow the best practices in order to have a performant system.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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
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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: 409352  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.