SAP Technical Solutions Consultant, BTP, Google Cloud

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.
• Technical and functional experience with SAP BTP and the underlying Cloud Foundry stack.
• Experience with HANA Cloud (as database platform), Steampunk/BTP ABAP (as application platform).
• Experience with Kubernetes and specifically with SAP’s managed offering, Gardener.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with public clouds and cloud infrastructure including building, testing, and deploying cloud based services.
• Experience of SAP’s traditional, NetWeaver-based software stack (S/4, HANA 2.0).

About the job:

Google Cloud is the public cloud platform of choice for many enterprise customers and SAP SE alike. Their mission-critical workloads are strategic for the success of Google.

Google’s SAP Core Engineering team focuses on enabling SAP SE to integrate their software, PaaS and SaaS offerings seamlessly into Google Cloud. With colleagues across the globe, Walldorf as the headquarters of SAP SE is one of the team’s strategic locations to foster close collaboration between the two companies. More specifically, the successful candidate will work directly with engineering teams of SAP’s various lines-of-business (LoB’s) to ensure the success of both SAP SE and our joint enterprise customers.

For this role in our SAP Core Engineering team, the successful candidate will work with multiple SAP lines-of-business (LoB’s). The key focus will be to support the successful deployment and integration of their PaaS and SaaS offerings into Google Cloud, using different OSS and SAP-proprietary frameworks like Terraform, Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes (Gardener).

While communication within the Walldorf-based team and with SAP is mainly in English, proficiency in the German language is an advantage.

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:

• Act as conduit between Google and SAP engineering and engage in direct collaboration with SAP’s different development teams.
• Guide SAP in the development and integration of cloud-native PaaS/SaaS solutions on Google Cloud, leveraging open-source and proprietary frameworks such as Kubernetes (Gardener), Cloud Foundry, Terraform, Ansible etc.
• Troubleshoot and mitigate complex issues based on deep understanding of both SAP’s software stack and cloud infrastructure.
• Validate the consistency of new technologies and its 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 writing 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.

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