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Solutions Architect - SAP

Cisco Systems, Inc. 1,658 reviews - Richardson, TX

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Job Category: Services

Level of Experience: Experienced - Non Manager

Description:

The Business Entity

The application and Migration services team is part of the Cisco’s Advanced Services Center of Excellence for Cloud & IT Transformation. This team is focused on delivering services that transform our clients’ businesses through application and migration solutions for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Big Data.

The Team

Here you will be part of a very passionate, and collaborative customer facing team of SAP professionals. This team is focused on SAP HANA solutions, and empowered to work directly with some of Cisco’s largest customers to design, deploy, and operate high impact solutions and technologies within the SAP domain and data centers of the future.

Role & Responsibilities

• The technical lead for SAP HANA, SAP OS/DB migrations, and Hadoop, to design, migrate, deploy and support deployments on Cisco platforms

• Work with service teams and delivery partners to establish credibility and capability to clients in the ability to configure, deploy and operate world class datacenter environments to support SAP HANA, migrations and Hadoop running on Cisco Unified Architectures

• Provide knowledge transfer to end clients on how to best architect, deploy and operate their environment

• Present and discuss technical best practices, concepts, and technologies for innovative computing solutions

• Work on complex and sensitive business problems and help implement state of the art data center solutions.-Work closely with engineering and service teams to build unique technical configuration, skills, and best practices to optimize the use of Cisco technology in modern datacenter environments

• Support and identify new service opportunities that exceed those currently offered

• Participate in developing and delivering on strategic initiatives for the services team

• Assist the team in the prioritization and development of key activities, tools and technical implementation programs

• Develop and nurture strong customer relationships with the data center design, operations and support personnel.

• This position will require 50% travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extremely strong experience with the Linux (RHEL / Suse). Experience with other Unix-based operating systems helpful.

• Experience with SAP OS/DB Migration

• Broad technical knowledge of the data center and the three infrastructure pillars: SAN, Network and Server.

• Strong understanding of virtualization tools and concepts (VMware, XEN, Hyper-V, Platespin, etc.)

• Strong knowledge of multi-tiered application environments, including their design, implementation, and capacity/scaling challenges (SAP Netweaver/Basis, Oracle Fusion, Websphere, Exchange, Active Directory etc.)

• Knowledge of database technologies. Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle RAC experience ideal.

• Strong written, verbal and white board skills

• Experience presenting solutions to customers and assisting in the sales process.

• Experience deploying and architecting Hadoop systems

• Performance Tuning of Operating Systems, Applications, Databases, Storage, and Networking helpful.

• Fundamental knowledge and experience with SAN, Knowledge and experience with multiple platform interoperability and utility/grid computing concepts

Desired Skills

• Knowledge and experience with multiple platform Working knowledge of high availability and business continuity from a technology and business process perspective, experience defining RPO/RTO expectations Data replication technologies. Understanding of security procedures and practices.interoperability and utility/grid computing concepts

• Active on social media in areas of technical expertise.

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No "50% travel" for AS organization means being posted for a month at a time to some data centre in a corporate park in NJ or Terre Haute and we being too tight to pay for a ticket home for the weekend. Those fat margins on your labor will go to your director to attend conferences on your behalf.

If you really have these skills, you could go and work for Accenture and make 2x as much.

• This position will require 50% travel.

Translation: We will hire only single people under 30 years. If you have kids or family obligations, we don't need you. Also, be prepared to work on weekends and holidays.

@bos - Uber is more like $17/hr

Over 40 need not apply.

Has to be one of the worst job descriptions ever. No wonder cysco has not clue on modern SW architectures

csco is the biggest joke nowdays.

University of Phoenix grads are the worst. They watch too many of those terrible commercials and think they're Ivy Leaguers. But these are the guys Cisco prefers nowadays.

Don't even bother to apply unless you have the following skills:

You can produce a fake degree, from a fake University.
You can lie to your team members and mislead them on just about everything.
You are incompetent but think you are smart because you easily lie and cheat.
You have a support group who speaks your native language and comes to your rescue whenever you have deliverables.
You are on H1-B from a corrupt country and you think you are here because Americans are dumb.
You have no business, technical, verbal, writing, or presentation skills. You don't even need them because you come from your manager's village.

Best wishes to this yet to be hired and soon to be LR'ed person.

Low rates are the new normal. Don't forget that businesses can still hire someone overseas for a fraction of these low rates. Besides, if you are struggling to pay off your million dollar house in the bay area you better re-evaluate options.

The rate that I was quoted for a similar position in San Jose was $35-40/hr. I told the agency that I'd rather drive for Uber.

I keep getting calls from staffing agencies about my previous role (chopped up) and for a very low hourly rate. I guess 2 contractors at a low rate is the direction Cisco is going.

You will be trained by the same personnel you will be replacing! though you will earn 10x less. You do not have to worry about your career no more, in fact, nobody else will! If you are something near 40 y.o. , please do not contact us, we are trying to look like Facebook or something.

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