Sap Infrastructure Dba & Middleware Lead

Lead SAP platform architecture, database administration, and middleware operations for enterprise clients, focusing on governance, automation, security, and compliance. This role involves defining target-state architectures, managing integrations, driving efficiency through infrastructure-as-code, and ensuring platform security and resilience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the target-state SAP platform architecture across development, test, and production environments, including sizing, capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, and observability standards.
  2. Lead database and platform governance activities, including patch strategy, lifecycle management, performance baselines, and operational KPI/SLA management.
  3. Own integration architecture and operations strategy, including interface portfolio rationalization, monitoring and traceability standards, secure connectivity patterns, and certificate or key management.
  4. Drive automation and run-efficiency initiatives through infrastructure-as-code, automated health checks, standardized deployment pipelines, and self-healing operational patterns where applicable.
  5. Oversee platform security and compliance posture, including hardening, privileged access, audit evidence, vulnerability management, and network segmentation or DMZ considerations for middleware components.

Skills

Required

  • SAP platform architecture
  • database administration
  • middleware operations
  • solution design
  • platform governance
  • patch strategy
  • lifecycle management
  • performance baselines
  • operational KPI/SLA management
  • integration architecture
  • interface portfolio rationalization
  • monitoring and traceability standards
  • secure connectivity patterns
  • certificate or key management
  • infrastructure-as-code
  • automated health checks
  • standardized deployment pipelines
  • self-healing operational patterns
  • platform security
  • compliance posture
  • hardening
  • privileged access
  • audit evidence
  • vulnerability management
  • network segmentation
  • DMZ considerations
  • architecture guardrails
  • operational standards
  • governance processes
  • resilience
  • risk reduction
  • scalable delivery
  • major incident response
  • post-incident reviews
  • systemic remediation
  • technical debt reduction
  • collaboration with infrastructure, security, SAP basis, middleware, and application teams

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • leading delivery teams

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
  • Active Secret security clearance required