Sap Basis/Aws Cloud Manager

-Location: Sao Paulo or Mexico City - Hybrid work.
Novartis Corporate Center Mexico City is one of six strategically located corporate centers established by Novartis globally. It brings together expert capabilities and talent across functionalities, that drives the business forward. It is home to 1000+ associates who work to deliver on the Novartis purpose of reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.
Your responsibilities
• Design, deploy and oversees the implementation and integration of SAP systems for cloud-based solutions (preferably AWS). This includes both migrating on premise.
• Be responsible for SAP solution lifecycle management and for ensuring the performance and reliability of SAP Systems. Continuously evaluate quality process improvements in Build or run areas and devise rollout strategy for those.
• Roadmap Planning to streamline, standardize and strengthen security, business continuity and disaster recovery across sites while achieving improvements in performance, reliability, robustness and scalability.
• Lead and review the following administration activities: Install, configure, monitor, fine-tune, and troubleshoot the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis as well as planning & scheduling SAP transport system.
• Collaborate and coordinate closely with various other IS teams to establish the infrastructure standards and requirements for proper operation of SAP systems and landscapes and will provide the highest level of technical expertise and consulting on SAP platforms.
• Participate in projects to implement and/or enhance SAP systems and applications and work with technical and other IS teams to define user requirements, coordinate system-wide updates and install upgrades and patches.
• Monitor, maintain and improve performance metrics for system features and recommends and takes corrective/preventive actions on those metrics.
• Plan and co-ordinate Outages, Patching and any other activity impacting SAP landscape including impacts from Application, Network, OS, Storage and database. Be responsible to establish and test DR/HA Plans impacting the landscape. Be accountable for the performance of subordinates or the work output of managed subcontractors.

Bachelor or master’s in computer science or Information Technology.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of relevant experience with SAP basis.
• SAP Certified and AWS Cloud Certified desirable. Trained in ITIL Practices
• Experience in cloud-based solutions (preferably AWS).
• Expert knowledge in management of the SAP environment including Netweaver, PI, BW, ECC, S4HANA, SCM, Enterprise Portals, Solution Manager and in handling ABAP & JAVA Stacks.
• Hands on experience on HANA Installation, migration, and administration of SAP HANA system integration within an SAP Landscape.
• Experience handling at least 2 implementation and Upgrade & large-scale application support engagements projects.
• Preferred experience with running SAP on Oracle & HANA databases on Solaris/UNIX and Linux application servers.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailoring communications to the audience. Able to work in ambiguous situations/environments; demonstrated ability to break down problems into constituent parts and develop and drive plans for resolution.
• English Fluent
Why Novartis?
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!
Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!
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