Petroleum Development Oman is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply.
Provide global best practices in SAP systems installation, configuration, operation, support and maintenance of IM&T infrastructure.
• BSc in Computing, Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent.• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in SAP basis systems engineering, installation, configuration, operations, upgrade and support and maintenance.• A minimum of 4 years hands on and deployment experience in AIX operating system• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in infrastructure planning and management, change management, networking, Data Storage, HA, and IT security• . Proficient in key technologies used in SAP such as:? SAP ERP.? SAPpHiRe? Oracle (DBA ).? Solman/CHARM.? SAP HANA.? SAP patch upgrade such as SP’s, Oracle patch, AIX and Linux patch, and SAP Kernel. • SAP – ERP admin and HANA certification is preferred.• Formal training in SAP and AIX/Linux operating systems.• Ability to identify and resolve problems and manage performance• Knowledgeable in emerging IT technologies & architectures.• Knowledgeable in telecommunication and computing fundamentals, and related maintenance practices.• Knowledgeable in Project management and Training skills, with coaching / mentoring experiences.• High customer orientation – ability to focus and help customer meet their short, medium- and long-term requirements• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences• A strong team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, and able to develop positive working relationships and a strong rapport with the team• Broad IT knowledge of evolving technologies & architectures such as SAP ICLOUD, and SAP S/4 HANA.
Plan Operational & Systems Engineering Activities• Execute the annual work plans for Systems Engineering specific activities • Apply best practises in executing projects activities and manage the work in terms of planning & prioritising• Provide input to the identification/piloting of new computing infrastructure processes and procedures against clear improvement objectives, within agreed time scales, resources and budget & analyse and evaluate pilot feedback.• Contribute and manage the planning of computing infrastructure fallback processes, services and procedures as well as plans for regular testing of same. • Provide input to the plan for the integrated computing asset integrity programme comprising preventive maintenance of all key computing assets.• Contribute to the process to ensure that PDO computing infrastructure is compliant with IM&T security standards• Contribute to the process to ensure that computing infrastructure roadmaps are in place and are in line with business demands and growth• Contribute to the process to ensure that computing infrastructure capacity planning is in place for the designated services in order to meet the long term business plans by conducting utilization monitoring and producing trends analysis reports.• Execute computing infrastructure implementation projectsOperate, Monitor & Review Infrastructure• Contribute and manage the process for the execution of systems engineering annual work plans with particular emphasis on preventive maintenance as well as the testing of disaster recovery plans.• Monitor, review and report on Infrastructure Integrity and Capacity vis-à-vis known business requirements.• Monitor and report on systems engineering team performance vis-à-vis Service Level Agreements (OLA, SLA), HSE plans, KPI’s and KBA’s.• Contribute and manage the process for the proactive periodic Infrastructure vulnerability assessment including ISO compliancy.• System tuning (database, application and OS).• Monitor systems performance via monitoring dashboard.• Contribute and manage the process for driving the realisation of asset and process improvements initiatives.• Contribute to the process for the management and reporting on the systems engineering associated budget performance.• Execute infrastructure systems engineering best practices to keep alignment with technology development, global initiatives and importantly with business needs and growth.• Build and configure UNIX / Linux and SAP infrastructure according to PDO and group standards and comply with PDO’s change management process when changing production environment.• Creates, maintains and updates technical documentation and procedures for efficient system administrationHSE Management• Contribute to the process to ensure compliance with responsibilities and accountabilities summarised in the HSE Policy, Commitment and Accountabilities booklet (the latest version)• Ensures delivery against organization information risk compliance, Health, Safety and Environment guidelines and as per defined IT Service Management policy, processes and procedure
