SAP - Reston, VA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Reston, VA
10,001+ employees
Publishing Industries

About the position

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. The SAP SuccessFactors Service Delivery Organization is responsible for operational support for the SuccessFactors Cloud-based suite of HCM solutions, which have more than 30 million users worldwide. We have teams in various regions including India, Hungary, Germany, the Americas, China, and Australia. The SAP SuccessFactors Service Delivery and Operations Center in Canada and the US is a key region responsible for operating SAP SuccessFactors HCM Cloud Products. The team in this region needs to ensure that the various productive landscapes are running well for global customers. We are looking for a talented, goal-oriented, motivated, and proactive team player with excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills coupled with a willingness to take initiative. The role involves installation, configuration, and maintenance of MySQL databases, including standalone and master-master cluster setups. You will develop and implement database backup and recovery strategies, control system resource usage, perform troubleshooting and diagnostics, and analyze resource usage for capacity planning. Additionally, you will be responsible for query optimization, creating database tables, monitoring production jobs, and evaluating database technologies. This position requires participation in a 24x7 rotation shift supporting production and non-production databases of MySQL and MSSQL, ensuring timely responses to system alerts. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders, development architects, and managers across locations to ensure timely delivery and operational efficiency. Excellent written and communication skills, strong customer focus, and flexibility are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of MySQL database standalone and master-master cluster setup.
  • Develop and implement database backup and recovery strategy and solutions.
  • Control system resources usage, perform troubleshooting and diagnostics activities.
  • Analyze resources usage (Infra and Database), analyze growth patterns, perform capacity planning for the Database Infrastructure.
  • Willingness to learn and support DB technologies like MS-SQL.
  • Collect and analyze database performance information; identify and implement solutions for performance problems.
  • Query optimization and tuning skills including cross database and cross server queries, analysis and troubleshooting interactions between databases, operating systems, and applications with regard to performance and resources usage.
  • Creating database tables, setting up indexes, data constraints, and DB views.
  • Analyze, predict through trend analysis, and resolve database system, storage, and application issues.
  • Monitor jobs in production and be responsible for load/hardware analysis mapping, fault tolerance, and security.
  • Evaluate and implement database technologies and utilities.
  • Database upgrades, patching, migrations.
  • Review and implement database changes.
  • Participate in 24x7 rotation shift supporting production and non-production databases of MySQL & MSSQL and provide timely response to system alerts.
  • Drive operational efficiency topics.
  • Work closely with internal/external stakeholders, development architects/managers & developers, across locations and ensure timely delivery.
  • Participate and contribute towards organization's goals and objectives, collaborating with multiple teams and solutions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of overall database administration in MySQL 5.7.x, 8.x etc.
  • 8+ years of support/operations experience, with a successful delivery track record.
  • Knowledge in Performance Tuning is a MUST.
  • Experience of working in large landscape/environment where multiple database flavors are running.
  • Participate in 24x7 rotation shift/on-call supporting production and non-production databases of MySQL & MSSQL and provide timely response to system alerts.
  • Should be capable of owning, leading, and coordinating operational tasks, customer escalations, and process improvements.
  • Experience in database programming concepts including structured query language, stored procedures, and triggers.
  • Good presentation & communication skills are a must.

Nice-to-haves

  • Hyperscale knowledge & experience is desirable.
  • Knowledge on database capacity planning/strategy is an added advantage.
  • Knowledge and experience on other database technologies like MSSQL, MariaDB, Percona is an added advantage.
  • Hands-on experience with expert knowledge of Unix/Linux Administration.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models
  • Health and well-being programs
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Recognition for individual contributions
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives
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