SAP Performance Engineer

 

Wichtigste Eigenschaften

Arbeitsort

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg

Unternehmen

TTP Germany AG

Allgemeine Beschreibung

Unser Kunde ist ein Personal-Computer und Smartphone Hersteller. 2016 lag das Unternehmen mit einem Weltmarktanteil von 21,2 % an verkauften PCs an der Spitze, vor HP.
Responsibilities:

- Main responsibility of the Performance Engineer is the execution of SAP Benchmarks like the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark, Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, and SAP BW Advanced Mixed Load Benchmark (BW-AML Benchmark). Lenovo aspires to create and publish world- record benchmarks to lead the market and demonstrate technology leadership.
- You feel end to end responsibility to create those world record results and collaborate closely with a global team of partners (SAP, OS vendors, DB vendors, suppliers of parts and firmware) and Lenovo teams (Performance group, HW and SW development).
- You analyze performance bottlenecks in database (mainly SAP HANA), ABAP, BW infocube design and data distribution, OS, network, and system architecture .
- You either fix identified performance bottlenecks on your own or get them addressed with the global team.
- You demonstrate leadership by influencing future designs of hardware and software based on your experience with benchmark projects and expert understanding of HPC architectures, hardware technologies evolution, and emerging technology opportunities.
- This position will be part of a global team of performance experts and part of a local development team located in Walldorf and Stuttgart.
- You support developers and architects in Walldorf on the fine tuning and redesign of the solution architecture to improve scalability, stability and performance.
- You provide feedback to Sales for sizing of customer bids and support performance assessment for customer go-lives

Position Requirements

- PhD, Master degree, Bachelor degree or equivalent in computer science, computer or electrical engineering or natural science or engineering discipline
- Solid educational background in computer architectures and systems architectures and systems software
- 5+ Years administrating Linux and Windows (incl. scripting), Servers Performance benchmarking, and performance tuning of databases (SAP HANA, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, or Oracle) and application systems (SAP)
- English fluent, German fluent, additional languages are appreciated
- Ability to identify system bottlenecks with strong troubleshooting, problem solving & reasoning skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- This position will require to be a good team player (interfacing with partners and development teams globally), self-motivated and work without the need to have close supervision of the manager.
- Ability to manage time and meet deliverable timing
- Ability to manage and organize work products and artifacts, and support multiple concurrent projects
- Experience leading performance monitoring and follow through successful investigation, analysis and root-cause identification and resolution of issues.

Strong experience with SAP NW & BW Performance tuning:

- Understanding of SAP Standard T-Codes to measure SAP System Performance
- Understanding of trace transaction for ABAP, Database and system
- Experience with SAP Solution Manager
- Understanding of SAP Performance Management Tools such as Business Transaction Analysis, Runtime Analysis, Workload Monitor, HANA Studio, Precise i3, etc.

Loadrunner:

- Experience with Loadrunner Advanced Concepts
- Experience in executing large multi-group performance test scenarios
- Experience with Loadrunner Scripting (Web protocol, SAP GUI, JAVA, Webservices), Test Execution and Reporting
- Experience in Performance Center
- Experience in Sitescope Monitoring
- Applicants should have excellent understanding of client/server architecture, application server optimization, database optimization, Network and OS optimization, and ABAP and JAVA as an application layers
- Familiar with system administration, application server configuration, network configuration e.g. Linux or SAP Kernel updates, application of SAP patches (transports, SPS) etc

Bonus Skills:

- Experience with SAP benchmarks or SAP Basis Administrator certification
- Expert level of understanding of SAP BW/BI 7.x data structures and performance characteristics
- Insights into processor, system, and subsystem (e.g. storage and network) architectures to assess trade-offs between CPU v.s. memory vs. I/O vs. database load is highly preferred
- Experience with dashboards development using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio- Analysis Edition for MS (Analysis/MS), Analysis Edition for OLAP (Analysis/OLAP) and Web Intelligence (WebI)
- Understanding of SAP Cloud for Customer solution and application architecture
- Experience with WEB performance testing tools like HTTP Watch, Fiddler, SUPA, etc.