Senior DevOps Engineer

SAP•Stanford, CA

5d•Remote

About The Position

Ariba, Inc. seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of customer environments in the Cloud for respective product lines and to ensure delivery according to defined Service Level Agreements. The role involves delivering SAP Cloud Applications as a Service from SAP managed datacenters and hyperscalers, utilizing various technologies, driving automation and standardization, ensuring smooth operations and maximizing uptime, and collaborating with engineering, product management, and other service groups. The position also focuses on improving system landscape support, providing independent assurance of effective system operations along the software lifecycle, managing knowledge within the team and between operations and development, ensuring high quality standards, contributing to the operations model, and managing projects or programs. A key aspect of the role is maintaining and operating cloud network services infrastructure with a focus on switching and routing, configuring and troubleshooting network technologies, and implementing automated network infrastructure tasks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Cisco Routing, including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP
Cisco Switching, including VLAN, VRRP, VTP, and Trunking
Palo Alto Firewall Administration
Big-IP F5 LTM and GTM
Cisco ASA or Firepower Firewall
ITIL Processes, including PCI and Sox
Install and configure Netscaler Loadbalancer
Hyper Scaler Networking and Automation
Datacenter Networking

Responsibilities

Deliver SAP Cloud Applications as a Service from SAP managed datacenters, and hyperscalers.
Utilize various technologies (e.g. database, platform) used by development and operations.
Drive for automation and standardization.
Ensure smooth operations and maximize uptime.
Collaborate with engineering and product management as well as other service groups.
Improve system landscape support in the assigned functional areas of responsibility.
Independent assurance of effective system operations along the software lifecycle.
Provide knowledge management in the team and between operations and development.
Ensure excellent quality and maintain high standards in all processes listed in the relevant process map.
Contribute to operations model/operational processes and procedure.
Project or Program management.
Maintain and operate cloud network services infrastructure with a focus on switching and routing.
Configure and troubleshoot network technologies including BGP, OSPF, HSRP, VRRP, Routing Domains, VLANís VxLAN, and VRF.
Implement network infrastructure automated tasks via Ansible, AWX and Python.
Work with engineering and architecture teams in order to provide operational expertise in concept development.