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What you'll build

Enhanced Operations Service Specialist plays a pivotal role within the SAP ECS - Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) organization, serving as a trusted advisor responsible for safeguarding and optimizing strategic customers investments in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.

We are looking for an experienced SAP technology professional experts for the Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) team who should have a proven track record in Database Administration in HANA database and Critical Situation Handling with a strong technical and process background.

A customer first mindset is a must.

Ensuring Day to Day quality service delivery and defining, tracking, and achieving various ambitious service KPI and SLA's.
Technically skilled in Database Technologies like HANA/ASE/MSSQL - with expert level knowledge in HANA is must
Participate in Major incident handling, troubleshoot service request failures, downtime extensions, long running ongoing incidents for a customer, and resolving in the stipulated SLA/KPI thresholds
Quick responses during escalations, take proactive steps to avoid escalations, identifying and driving initiatives to improve the operation and stability for our customer system.
Root Cause analysis for Service requests failures/outages, performance issues - continuous improvement methodologies
Strong capability in proactive alert analysis and maintaining system stability by effectively analysing and responding to proactive alerts
Analyse root-causes of the failures (if known) and define a corrective action plan, with well-defined mitigation steps.
Coordinate and orchestrate the work between the various teams with Strong collaboration with other units within and outside Enterprise Cloud Service units.
Bring in Continuous Improvement Initiatives, to address customer pain points and enhancements in the Service Delivery
Process improvement initiatives for daily operational activities
Streamline standard operating procedures by focussing on automation enhancements.
Proactive Operation services for the customer and service on-demand with timely alert reduction program to all the stakeholders involving the customer.

What you bring

10+ years of related professional experience
Bachelor's degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technologies Management.
Cloud knowledge (e.g., experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP)
Strong experience as Database Administrator in Global Operations team (primarily on SAP HANA and ASE)
Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
DB installations and upgrade, Planning, setup, and implementation.
Providing technical expertise and support in optimizing and tuning of Systems, Performance Optimization.
DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability, and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must.
Experience in Problem Management, Root cause analysis methodologies
Professional Certification of Database Platforms
Capacity to continuously acquire new knowledge in an independent and proactive way.
Good analytical and solution-oriented thinking
Very good communication and networking skills
Experience of safeguarding customer relationship.
Strong customer service focus

Where you belong

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is part of the Customer Services & Delivery board area in SAP. Enterprise Cloud Services is a business unit focusing on delivery of managed private cloud services. To provide our customers with the right level of service, we have Technical and customer facing roles within the unit along with technical delivery.

The Enhanced Operation Service is part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery organization. This is a dedicated team which will focus on leading and optimizing strategic customers end-to-end delivery and operation model, during the customer's cloud transformation journey. We provide a spectrum of cloud deployment options for our customers with our own infrastructure, our partners and through public cloud infrastructures.

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Requisition ID: 449306 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

IT Technology Services Senior Specialist - Database Management (HANA, ASE)