(Senior) Cloud Solution Architect

 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.

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1400 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and has recently welcomed new teams focusing on business applications. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

PlusOne Infrastructure Engineering is the team behind the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform SAP Converged Cloud. We are running in 15 SAP owned data centers distributed world-wide. By augmenting an opinionated OpenStack distribution with bespoke services, we are meeting the demand of SAP’s cloud business. Our roadmap includes transforming SAP Converged Cloud into a public cloud offering and expanding its capabilities with new services to support SAP Business AI and SAP BTP.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Cloud Solution Architect to join the GCID PlusOne team. As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with exciting projects within the PlusOne Converged Cloud user base. This internal and external customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and operations with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges. You will leverage your problem-solving expertise to help customers to realize their objectives and improve the PlusOne Infrastructure. 

You will be responsible for:

Architecture Design and Deployment - Lead Architectural Design Sessions to develop comprehensive plans for solution implementation, aligning with customer business objectives and technical requirements.

• Resolution of Customer Blockers:  Identify and resolve issues that are preventing the go-live of customer success projects by applying your technical expertise. Lead discussions with stakeholders to ensure they derive maximum value from their PlusOne investments.

• Blueprints and Whitepapers: Document and share the exceptional architectural work you perform, contributing to our Documentation and knowledge base.

• Elevating Customer Satisfaction: Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and business lines. Represent the Customer's perspective, sharing insights and best practices, and collaborating with our Engineering teams to resolve challenges.

• Customer/Partner Insights: Deliver valuable feedback and insights from customers and business lines to the Engineering teams, promoting continuous service improvement and innovation.

We are seeking an innovative, communicative, and self-driven individual with technical competence. Your expertise in cloud techniques, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, containers, networking, orchestration, and automation, is highly valued.

• Degree in Applied Sciences. Preferred field of study: Computer Science or related field.  5+ years of relevant experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies.

• Systematic Approach to Complex Challenges: Demonstrate a methodical approach to solving complex issues, showing initiative and a sense of responsibility.

• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills: Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to effectively manage critical situations through presentations.

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or OpenStack.

• Excellent understanding in IaaS, SaaS, PaaS solutions

• Preferably experience working with BTP (Neo, CF, Kyma) and related cloud native technologies.

• Knowledge of Linux, open-source hypervisors, network equipment or storage systems would be a big advantage.

Join the vibrant PlusOne Infrastructure Engineering team and contribute to the SAP Converged Cloud. We're at the core of SAP's cloud solutions, using the latest technologies to develop an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform that reaches 15 regions worldwide.

​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.
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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: 397367  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | #LI-Hybrid.