Platform Automation Engineer

Ref-Code: DE-60430481-EN-15-003
Work area: Information Technology
Expected travel: 0% - 10%
Career status:
Employment type: Regular Full Time
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.Hybris is the future of commerce.

We need your expertise to strengthen our team in our Munich office! With operations in 18 countries, hybris is the fastest-growing independent provider of commerce software. We help companies around the globe sell more goods, services, and digital content through every touch point, channel and device. hybris enables "OmniCommerce": state-of-the-art master data management and unified commerce processes that give a business a single view of its customers, products, and orders, and gives its customers a single view of the business.

Over 400 companies have chosen hybris, including global B2B sites such as Starbucks, W.W.Grainger and Thomson Reuters as well as consumer brands Bridgestone, P&G, Toys"R"Us, Levi's, and Galeries Lafayette. Both principal industry analyst firms rank our commerce platform among the top two or three in the world. As a Platform Automation Engineer for hybris Cloud Services, you will be responsible for all aspects related to automation of the initial setup and deployments of customer environments, where hybris eCommerce solutions are deployed and implemented as a managed service.

You will work collaboratively with other engineers, platform implementation, platform services, operations, and other hybris Cloud Services team members, to create, test, deploy and maintain automation and other supporting services. This job includes some travelling (up to 5%) to other hybris offices.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Development of Automation solutions for the Initial Setup and Deployments of hybris eCommerce Environments.
- Development of the Customer Portal web application with self-serve deployments capability.
- Providing and maintaining technical documentation about the applications and services developed.
- Create generic, scalable solutions for auxiliary services like monitoring, logging, user management, etc.
- Contribute to the definition and improvement of the installation, administration and maintenance processes of the hybris eCommerce software and solutions.
- Work closely with project managers, platform services and platform implementation engineers.
- Configuring, managing, monitoring and debugging software (Chef, ruby, bash, Apache, tomcat, Solr, hybris platform).
- Diagnosing integration and performance problems and implementing long-term solutions.
- Documenting, reporting, tracking and implementing fixes for software problems.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Work experience with DevOps and system configuration and deployment automation technologies such as Chef or Puppet.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Bachelor Degree in quantitative field, preferably Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Solid Linux administration skills and hands-on programming experience on a Linux/Unix operating system.
- Experience with Java and/or Ruby and web development.
- Solid scripting skills (sh, bash, sed, awk, ruby, python, perl, regular expressions).
- Experience working in managed services or a cloud-based service provider.
- Understanding of virtualization technologies and of application security.
- Solid understanding of eCommerce solutions based on Java and web Technologies.
- Expertise in deploying and managing Java applications using tomcat.
- Solid skills in Apache web servers and web protocols.
- Solid documentation skills.
- Understanding of application performance tuning, JVM optimization, debugging.
- Ability to effectively communicate designs and decisions to peers and management.
- Willingness to continuously learn new technologies and methodologies.
- Good English skills verbal & written.
- ITIL Certification(s) is considered an asset
- Experience with APM tools such as DynaTrace are considered an asset
- Ability to work flexible hours, on occasion, as needed
- Willingness to continuously learn new technologies and methodologies
- Good English skills verbal & written