SAP Basis Administrator

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? VMware’s business is transforming from traditional on-prem software to multi cloud solutions You will be great fit if you like to work on complex business challenges and find elegant, high-performance solutions to accelerate the VMware’s SaaS Transformation journey. By joining the Application Operations team, you will be engaged in building, supporting, and troubleshooting world class Application infrastructure for various customer facing business applications. This would include various flavours of SAP systems in a virtualised environment. Above all, you will get to work in a culture and team where new ideas are strongly encouraged and appreciated. If you are looking forward to working on the latest and top of the line technology stack related to Applications and cloud native platforms keeping you always engaged and giving you ample learning opportunity, then this is the place. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? Goals you would be expected to complete for you to consider me successful in this role: The first 6-8 weeks: Develop a good understanding of your team. Their strengths, weaknesses, and development goals. Understand your team’s challenges. Get a good understanding of applications, system and services tech stack, and key business processes. Understand our organization’s processes that span teams. 8-12 weeks onward: Goals for next 90-120 days would be to handle the tasks independently. Setting up best practices, documenting SOPs and troubleshooting guides The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? Being a key player and working with various teams across Dev and Infra Operations, you will be involved in ensuring the availability and stability of the SAP systems. This would involve: Work in a cross functional team comprising of Engineering teams, middleware teams, Developers, Infrastructure admins to deliver time bound goals. Participate in administrative activities related to SAP Support pack and release upgrades, Kernel upgrades, Disaster recovery simulations Develop technical documentation for installation and configuration. Assists with application health and server metrics collection and reporting. Work on SAP BRIM systems (Convergent Charging, Convergent Mediation),SAP BOBJ, BODS, HANA Database upgrades Develop UNIX shell scripts to automate tasks like restarts, installation etc. on application servers. Performance tuning of the SAP system Supporting daily operational tasks like trouble shooting tickets What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? The Hiring Manager for this role is a IT Manager for Application Operation. He has been with VMware for 7 years. He is a Leader who believes in fostering open dialogue, leading his team with a high sense of integrity, and encouraging all team members to apply a growth mindset in everything they do. EPIC2 values are followed and reflected in everything which is done and accomplished. The team is distributed primarily across Bangalore and Palo Alto. We leverage the benefits of being located at different sites, whilst operating as one team, following business dynamics and a knowledge sharing culture. Where is this role located? Flexible: The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remote depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager. You will be expected to live within a reasonable non-daily commute of the office. The position is eligible for JoinCIO tag referral campaign Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Applications Administration Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-07-15 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com. 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