SAP Performance Engineer-Major Bank - Sydney-EXCLUSIVE to iKas

Our client is one of Australia's leading and largest Financial Services Organisation that has expanded its operations beyond the Australian shores. The organization has a large range of financial offerings to both public and private clients across the retail, corporate and institutional banking areas. They have a very large technical footprint that combine a dynamic range of technologies in an ultimate complex landscape.

The Performance and Capacity team have a very large remit, to evaluate and improve the bank wide systems with a focus on high availability and stability. This team has been organically grown over the last 18months and now due to their excellent success record of improvements they have been given a wide remit and larger projects. The role is a highly technical performance / capacity position where you are responsible for analysis extremely large SAP application systems and underlying infrastructure that supports it. Then you are required to scope innovative robust solutions to provide increases in the key areas of Capacity, High Availability and Performance.

After an internal promotion and a series of business request we are now looking to add a SAP expert to this highly regarded technology team. The role will be entrenched in the SAP world but looking specifically how it draws resources on the infrastructure stacks (Storage, midrange, mainframe etc). This will give you the opportunity to work on some of the largest SAP systems in Australia and performance tune in a highly complex multithreaded arena.

Responsibilities include:
* Evaluate bank wide SAP systems touching on multiple technologies
* Scope solution design and ensure fit for purpose on the metrics of traceability / availability.
* Perform complex technical capacity planning that evaluates for project changes, demand fluctuations and growth.
* Identify non-functional risks commensurate with design and manage to closure.
* Provide technical requirements documents / guidelines for operational monitoring.
* Create non-functional test cases (performance, load etc) to mitigate risks.
* Provide recommendations to business for further investment in capacity.


Skills required:
* Intimate knowledge of SAP systems
* Strong experience with Capacity and Performance managing of large scale technology systems
* Strong Infrastructure understanding - storage, virtualised platforms, midrange infrastructure, mainframe and db2
* Strong Holistic Technical Background spanning a multiple disciplines
* Strong analytical and communication skills
* Experience working with Solution designers / Architects.
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iKas International Finance Technology Specialists