Requisition ID: 261746
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time

 

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

About the team: Board Area Technology & Innovation and SAP HANA Infrastructure Team

Technology & Innovation (T&I) is responsible for SAP’s overall platform and technology development such as SAP Cloud Platform and SAP HANA. In addition, T&I drives the incubation and adoption of intelligent technologies like Analytics, SAP Leonardo Machine Learning and IoT across SAP’s product portfolio. The T&I board area is also in charge of SAP’s global innovation agenda and builds new business model- and market driven innovations to help customers realize the most business value.

 

Our HANA Infrastructure Team oversees construction and operation of a stable productive environment for our fully automated development process. Backed by a datacenter full of high-end servers the team facilitates more than simply Continuous Integration. The team does state-of-the-art C++ development based on Open Source components like Linux, Git, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, CMake and Python that have proven to be a solid base for large scale development environments.

 

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
 

As a System Engineer in the HANA infrastructure team you will be working with a group of exceptionally talented and motivated people. You will join the team in configuring, operating, and developing the systems used for the HANA build- & test infrastructure. You will manage and operate the 2000+ large memory servers in our landscape. In addition, you will drive automation by contributing to our observability and server management tool stack.

In your daily work you can expect to:

• Provision servers with consistently configured Linux operating systems
• Monitor system health and resolve system issues
• Contribute to the development of our system management software stack
• Participate in handling infrastructure incidents

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Required skills

• Master’s degree in computer science or Bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years of working experience with proven track record in software development or quality assurance
• Very good programming knowledge in at least one language (preferably Python)
• Advanced experience with Linux / Unix systems
• Strong problem solving and analytical ability
• Ability to work well in close teamwork across international locations
• Fluent English both spoken and written

 

A plus will be experience with

• Automated configuration management (Ansible)
• Observability tooling (Grafana)
• Container technologies (Docker, Rkt)
• Cloud computing / orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Cluster storage (Ceph, GPFS, Amazon S3)
• C++ knowledge

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WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you’re searching for a company that’s dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment – apply now.

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT
To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you 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 (Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com).

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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