SAP Technical Solutions Consultant, Infrastructure, Google Cloud
Job Description
- Experience with public clouds and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with monitoring and alerting services on the cloud
- Knowledge of modern software development methodologies
- Knowledge of databases and performance optimization
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5 years of experience in technical troubleshooting cloud infrastructures
- 5 years of experience in stakeholder management, SAP solution engineering
- Experience with SAP products (e.g., SAP HANA, NetWeaver, SAP HA/DR)
- Experience with Linux/Unix systems, including shell scripting
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in technical troubleshooting cloud infrastructures and coding/scripting in Python or Java.
- 5 years of experience in stakeholder management, SAP solution engineering, technical consulting, and technical leadership.
- Experience with SAP products (e.g., SAP HANA, NetWeaver, SAP HA/DR), SAP technologies, and solution architecture.
- Experience with Linux/Unix systems, including shell scripting, file system management, and client-server protocols.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with public clouds and cloud infrastructure including building, testing, and deploying cloud based services.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting services on the cloud.
- Knowledge of modern software development methodologies with emphasis on multi-tenancy and high-availability.
- Knowledge of databases and performance optimization.
About the job
Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) software is used by many companies around the world, and the ability to run SAP applications is a key factor in enterprise companies selecting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud for their technology.
SAP’s products and partnership has pushed Google Cloud forward technologically in many aspects. Given the mission critical nature of SAP workloads, customers expect enterprise grade reliability, performance, scale and availability across zonal and regional failure domains, that are hard technical problems. Our mission is to develop technologies to make Google Cloud the best environment for running SAP applications.
In this role, you will participate in low level software validation and certification of SAP products on Google Infrastructure, creating best practices for SAP products on GCP, documentation of solutions and reference architectures, integrating and testing new features delivered to make SAP performant. You will work closely with the Business Development team, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to make Google the platform of choice for enterprise customers.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the development, testing, certification and support of SAP solutions on Google IaaS.
- Provide technical consultancy and advice on best practices, topologies, solutions, and other deployment patterns in collaboration with other key members of the Cloud Engineering teams and other cross-functional groups.
- Validate the consistency of new technologies and their interoperability with SAP software by scoping validation proposals and performance tests, KPIs, and desired outcomes, and publishing whitepapers and technology assessments.
- Design and implement solutions, including write scripts, executing tests and performing analysis on results, and work closely with Engineering and Product Management teams across the globe to identify feature gaps, deficiencies, and bugs.
- Analyze product bugs and feature requests raised by customers and work with internal teams to implement effective solutions, and identify opportunities for innovation that benefit GCP customers and partners.
