Avantra is seeking an SAP Automation Engineer to perform SAP Basis and Cloud Administration for our internal SAP lab environment. The lab environment consists of cloud and on-premises SAP software from across their range, and is used to develop and test automation and monitoring functionality for SAP operations teams. Avantra is the leading AIOps platform for SAP operations, providing monitoring and automation capabilities for the teams and service providers that run SAP.

The right candidate will have SAP operations experience, in an SAP Basis or cloud administration role, with strong capability for DevOps or automation in SAP technologies. The role includes creating test environments of SAP cloud products and software, automating setup of SAP scenarios, and management of automated tests.

As Avantra is used to manage the SAP environments of the world’s biggest companies, they will be passionate about quality assurance and releasing high quality software that can be trusted by customers to make critical changes to business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide SAP systems and scenarios for development and testing, utilising automation to make repeatable and resettable labs
• SAP Basis administration of SAP software running Google Cloud
• Management and technical administration of SAP cloud software including BTP services and SAP’s SaaS products
• Collaborate with SAP automation engineers and developers to support build and test of new solutions in Avantra software

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in SAP Basis or system administration, including product installation, cloud configuration and provisioning
• Strong problem-solving mindset and self-driven with ability to analyse SAP configurations and customisations, and to configure things for the first time
• Exposure to SAP cloud technologies (e.g. SAP Business Technology Platform services, S/4HANA Cloud, or SuccessFactors)
• Basic scripting or development skills (e.g. JavaScript, Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash or equivalent)
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation technologies (e.g. Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Some exposure to SAP development, for example with ABAP, or using the RAP or CAP methodologies
• Commitment to continuous learning and development, to ensure relevant capabilities in the newest SAP technologies continues to evolve
• Good communication skills in English

About Avantra

Avantra is a high growth tech company with 23 years of Swiss precision engineering coupled with the energy of a start-up. Our product is the leading AIOps platform for SAP operations, enabling customers to achieve hyperautomation success. Our customers are large multinational enterprises and household names, including national and global managed service providers. We have teams based across Switzerland, Germany, UK, US and Eastern Europe.

Our culture is something we are incredibly proud of and strive to protect. We live our values of Be Caring, Embrace Challenge and Stay Curious every day through company mindfulness sessions, wellbeing days and retaining a family feel. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

Benefits

This exciting role offers the opportunity to be involved in a high growth software company and will present significant opportunities for personal growth:

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive holiday & benefits package
• Remote working
• 1 Avantra wellbeing holiday day
• Learning & development programme

Alternatively we can consider a B2B arrangement, in some locations, if preferable. Please contact us for more details if you would like to explore this opportunity.

Location

This role is intended to be a remote role.

Occasional travel for customer visits, company and team gatherings is likely.