Azure Specialized is powering some of Azure’s most profitable business segments and is growing incredibly fast! We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services and customer workloads with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL/AI, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions, allow solving large computational problems in seconds, and running Systems Applications and Products (SAP) mission-critical customer workload and SAP Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) services.
SAP workload on the Azure platform is strategic for Microsoft’s customers. Microsoft Azure is the platform of choice for many partners like SAP and customers to host SAP centric solutions in public cloud. SAP is hosting SaaS and PaaS offers for their customers on Azure.
The SAP Engineering team within Azure Specialized is is looking to hire a Senior SAP Software Architect to join our team. We are focused on enabling, helping and supporting SAP to integrate SAP software, SaaS, and PaaS services into the Azure platform. Beyond that the team develops solutions and reference architectures for SAP workloads on the Azure platform. Reliability is top of mind when running SAP on Azure. The SAP Engineering team is also engaged in designing automated tests, capable of detecting gating regressions in the platform, which can adversely impact SAP on Azure.
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Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering with SAP Basis Skills: SAP Highly Available/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) Design and SAP Operational Best Practices
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience Operating Systems (OS) Skills: technical knowledge on at least one of the following – Windows, Linux (SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), RHEL(Red Hat Enterprise Linux)), UNIX. Knowledge should include performance analysis and debugging. Knowledge of HA/DR technologies, including design and implementation of Geographically Dispersed HA/DR solutions
- 4+ years of experience Hyper-Visor/Cloud/Networking Skills: Able to design, deploy and troubleshoot solutions based on the following: Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- 4+ yeras of experience with automating tests
Other Requirements:
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred/ Additional Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience, preferably as SAP Basis Architect with a mix of architecture and technical lead roles.
- Relational Database Management skills (RDBMS) Skills: deep knowledge including performance query analysis, sizing, HA/DR and storage/disk design of SAP High-performance Analytical Appliciance (HANA) and at least 1-2 of the following: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MaxDB
- Scripting and Troubleshooting skills,
- Track record of delivering and deploying reliable, highly available and scalable SAP architectures to customers.
- Adaptable to the different layers of customer organizations up. Ability to clearly articulate complex solutions and/or problems.
Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 – $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 – $238,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Senior SAP Software Architect with a background in deploying, managing, operating SAP landscapes, and automating deployment tasks.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Develop, test and document well performing, scaling and resilient deployment scenarios.
- Work with Azure development on rolling out planned maintenance changes for select SAP on Azure Customers
- Work with Azure development on testing SAP workloads on Azure
- Script and implement reliable automation tools for efficiently testing SAP workloads on Azure
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex customer scenarios.
- Support the Microsoft customer facing personnel to successfully promote SAP workload scenarios on Azure infrastructure.