SAP NS2 Ariba SRE Lead

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SAP NS2 Ariba SRE Lead-Virtual

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services, and SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.

Must be a U.S. Person; NS2 does not offer Visa sponsorship for this role;

Operations & Site Reliability team ensures that SAP NS2’s services, both internally and externally- visible systems, have availability and uptime appropriate to customers’ needs in addition to a fast rate of improvement while maintaining an emphasis on security, capacity, and performance.

Site Reliability Engineers focus on optimizing release deployments, maintaining secure cloud infrastructure, and handling day-to-day operational. They are also responsible for ingesting new solutions and products downstream from the Build/Automation organization and using a wealth of monitoring and logging tools to solve a broad spectrum of issues. Post- mortem and proactive identification of potential issues factor into iterative improvement.

Operations and Site Reliability’s culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and responsibility are the keys to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think differently and take remediation of issues across the finish line. We promote teamwork and group-based troubleshooting and offer an environment that provides support and mentorship to learn and grow. Behind everything our customers see, the Operations and Site Reliability team maintains the systems that keep it secure and running. We make SAP NS2’s product portfolio available. We’re always trying to ensure our customers have the best and consistent possible experience.

Responsibilities:

• Set up, monitor, and maintain DevOps cloud-based SAAS products and solutions involving microservices, cloud, and containers.
• Maintain security and data privacy, ensure compliance, and perform required security, compliance and performance tests
• Work with architects on deployment architecture, security and CI/CD and then implement these on NS2’s cloud environments
• Setup and maintain Kubernetes clusters on cloud environments.
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains
• Analyze and solve operational issues, and respond to incidents
• Experience working with appropriate complex systems administration, database administration, and landscape maintenance
• Experience maintaining the integrity and security of servers and systems
• Experience developing and monitoring policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement continuous improvements
• Experience in developing and implementing testing strategies and documenting results
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor product

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience supporting Multi-Tenant SAP Platform product deployments – Ariba, FieldGlass and any new platform products is a must.
• 3-5 years of experience with Java/J2EE, JSP, Struts, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS and Microsoft SQL Server.
• 3-5 years of experience with micro-kernel and container technologies, Nano, vSphere Integrated Containers, and Docker.
• Experience with source code management such as SVN, GitHub or GitLab.
• Experience deploying high-volume applications in Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure using automation.
• Strong Experience with Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience in security fundamentals for SaaS Multitenant Solution.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of web services, networking, virtualization, and internet protocols 
• Ability to multitask and handle various projects, deadlines, and changing priorities

Preferred qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience with Web Service Deployment.
• 3-5 years of experience with AWS Route 53, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, ACM, KMS, and VPC.
• 3-5 years of experience with automation orchestration and configuration management tools such as Chef/Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD and Jenkins/Concourse.
• 3-5 years of experience with infrastructure as code environments, including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing.
• Ability to work with distributed teams collaboratively and productively.
• Self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

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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.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 145000 - 246400(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 393739 | Work Area:Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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