SAP Technical Architect

ROLE: SAP Technical Architect
LOCATION: Remote

Requirements:
1.       Engage with all efforts related with technical architecture requirements within SAP and non-SAP solutions.
2.       Will work closely with SAP Basis, AppDev, Automation, Business, infrastructure, and Business Continuity teams to create technical solutions.
3.       Interface with the Enterprise Architecture and Infosec teams to follow certain company and industry specific standards.
4.       Keeps abreast of new developments and forecasts of future trends in the areas of SAP technology.
Strong Infrastructure Knowledge for Compute, Network, Storage, Security, HA/DR. 
Deep knowledge of one or more Databases such as Oracle, HANA, MSSQL, Azure SQL, Postgres, CosmosDB, Aerospike
Knowledge of various Compute platforms such as VMWare, Kubernetes (AKS, OCP, Tanzu.), Docker, and Appliances such as Oracle Exadata and SAP HANA (by various h/w vendors)
Good understanding of SLES and RHEL and ability to architect HA setup involving Linux Pacemaker and similar supported HA solutions for SAP HANA DB and SAP Central Services
Understanding of SAP Networking requirements involving, External and Internal connectivity to SAP and other applications using Proxy, LoadBalancer, Application g/w, creating requests to get Firewall rules and NSG rules needed by the application.
Monitoring of SAP and 3rd party solutions using SAP Solution Manager, SAP LVM, New Relic APM, Dynatrace, Azure monitor for SAP.
Good knowledge of IT security products to harden OS, Storage, Network, Database, SAP, and different resources in Azure.
Working knowledge of Unix shell scripting, Python, Automation tools such as Ansible AWX/Tower, Terraform, DevOps tools such as Nexus, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Jenkins.
Knowledge of Data Streaming products such as Kafka, Confluent Platform, Azure Eventhub, Azure Streaming Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Google BigQuery and Google PubSub, SAP Data Intelligence and SAP DataSphere.
Ability to lead and actively participate doing hands-on work in Proof-of-Concept projects to demostrate certain architecture, Cyber resiliency, High Availability capabilities for the proposed solution.
Create Architecture diagrams, HLD, LLD and document the overall solution.
Costing of Solutions using Azure Pricing calculator and other tools, understanding of various aspects of IaaS and PaaS to help with computing optimum cost for the proposed solution andn Cost optimization for existing environment.
Work with Microsoft Azure resources to understand and suggest best practices of running SAP work laods in Azure.