IT Technology Services Senior Specialist - SAP HANA DBA

SAP Labs · Bengaluru · 10+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-01-07

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, GCP

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Enhanced Operations Service Specialist plays a pivotal role within the SAP ECS – Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) organization, serving as a trusted advisor responsible for safeguarding and optimizing strategic customers' investments in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.
- We are looking for an experienced SAP technology professional experts for the Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) team who should have a proven track record in Database Administration in HANA database and Critical Situation Handling with a strong technical and process background.
- A customer first mindset is a must.
- Ensuring Day to Day quality service delivery and defining, tracking, and achieving various ambitious service KPI and SLA’s.
- Technically skilled in Database Technologies like HANA/ASE/MSSQL – with expert level knowledge in HANA is must
- Participate in Major incident handling, troubleshoot service request failures, downtime extensions, long running ongoing incidents for a customer, and resolving in the stipulated SLA/KPI thresholds
- Quick responses during escalations, take proactive steps to avoid escalations, identifying and driving initiatives to improve the operation and stability for our customer system.
- Root Cause analysis for Service requests failures/outages, performance issues – continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong capability in proactive alert analysis and maintaining system stability by effectively analysing and responding to proactive alerts
- Analyse root-causes of the failures (if known) and define a corrective action plan, with well-defined mitigation steps.
- Coordinate and orchestrate the work between the various teams with Strong collaboration with other units within and outside Enterprise Cloud Service units.
- Bring in Continuous Improvement Initiatives, to address customer pain points and enhancements in the Service Delivery
- Process improvement initiatives for daily operational activities
- Streamline standard operating procedures by focussing on automation enhancements.
- Proactive Operation services for the customer and service on-demand with timely alert reduction program to all the stakeholders involving the customer.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of related professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technologies Management.
- Cloud knowledge (e.g., experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP)
- Strong experience as Database Administrator in Global Operations team (primarily on SAP HANA and ASE)
- Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
- DB installations and upgrade, Planning, setup, and implementation.
- Providing technical expertise and support in optimizing and tuning of Systems, Performance Optimization.
- DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability, and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must.
- Experience in Problem Management, Root cause analysis methodologies
- Professional Certification of Database Platforms
- Capacity to continuously acquire new knowledge in an independent and proactive way.
- Good analytical and solution-oriented thinking
- Very good communication and networking skills
- Experience of safeguarding customer relationship.
- Strong customer service focus
- Where you belong
- SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is part of the Customer Services & Delivery board area in SAP. Enterprise Cloud Services is a business unit focusing on delivery of managed private cloud services. To provide our customers with the right level of service, we have Technical and customer facing roles within the unit along with technical delivery.
- The Enhanced Operation Service is part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery organization. This is a dedicated team which will focus on leading and optimizing strategic customers’ end-to-end delivery and operation model, during the customer’s cloud transformation journey. We provide a spectrum of cloud deployment options for our customers with our own infrastructure, our partners and through public cloud infrastructures.

Qualifications

- 10+ years of related professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technologies Management.
- Cloud knowledge (e.g., experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP)
- Strong experience as Database Administrator in Global Operations team (primarily on SAP HANA and ASE)
- Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
- DB installations and upgrade, Planning, setup, and implementation.
- Providing technical expertise and support in optimizing and tuning of Systems, Performance Optimization.
- DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability, and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must.
- Experience in Problem Management, Root cause analysis methodologies
- Professional Certification of Database Platforms
- Capacity to continuously acquire new knowledge in an independent and proactive way.
- Good analytical and solution-oriented thinking
- Very good communication and networking skills
- Experience of safeguarding customer relationship.
- Strong customer service focus
- Where you belong
- SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is part of the Customer Services & Delivery board area in SAP.
- Enterprise Cloud Services is a business unit focusing on delivery of managed private cloud services.
- To provide our customers with the right level of service, we have Technical and customer facing roles within the unit along with technical delivery.
- The Enhanced Operation Service is part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery organization.
- This is a dedicated team which will focus on leading and optimizing strategic customers’ end-to-end delivery and operation model, during the customer’s cloud transformation journey.
- We provide a spectrum of cloud deployment options for our customers with our own infrastructure, our partners and through public cloud infrastructures.

Responsibilities

- Enhanced Operations Service Specialist plays a pivotal role within the SAP ECS
- Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) organization, serving as a trusted advisor responsible for safeguarding and optimizing strategic customers' investments in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.
- We are looking for an experienced SAP technology professional experts for the Enhanced Operations Service (EOS) team who should have a proven track record in Database Administration in HANA database and Critical Situation Handling with a strong technical and process background.
- A customer first mindset is a must.
- Ensuring Day to Day quality service delivery and defining, tracking, and achieving various ambitious service KPI and SLA’s.
- Technically skilled in Database Technologies like HANA/ASE/MSSQL – with expert level knowledge in HANA is must
- Participate in Major incident handling, troubleshoot service request failures, downtime extensions, long running ongoing incidents for a customer, and resolving in the stipulated SLA/KPI thresholds
- Quick responses during escalations, take proactive steps to avoid escalations, identifying and driving initiatives to improve the operation and stability for our customer system.
- Root Cause analysis for Service requests failures/outages, performance issues – continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong capability in proactive alert analysis and maintaining system stability by effectively analysing and responding to proactive alerts
- Analyse root-causes of the failures (if known) and define a corrective action plan, with well-defined mitigation steps.
- Coordinate and orchestrate the work between the various teams with Strong collaboration with other units within and outside Enterprise Cloud Service units.
- Bring in Continuous Improvement Initiatives, to address customer pain points and enhancements in the Service Delivery
- Process improvement initiatives for daily operational activities
- Streamline standard operating procedures by focussing on automation enhancements.
- Proactive Operation services for the customer and service on-demand with timely alert reduction program to all the stakeholders involving the customer.

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