Site Reliability Engineer
ADP is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer in Barcelona to operate, optimize, and evolve the SAP platform (SAP Basis, S/4HANA on RISE) supporting its multinational payroll and HR business. The role mixes hands-on administration, performance tuning, incident leadership, disaster recovery, security hardening, and mentoring.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Barcelona, Spain
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of hands-on SAP Basis administration with ECC and/or S/4HANA systems
- Ability to design complex SAP Basis and HANA landscapes: multi-instance systems, high-availability, disaster recovery
- Expert-level knowledge of SAP Basis and HANA architecture (ABAP, Java, or dual-stack)
- Oracle, SQL Server, or similar enterprise database administration with advanced recovery/restore
- Strong Linux administration (SUSE/Red Hat), virtualization (VMware), networking, and storage for SAP environments
- Network and security concepts: SSO, firewalls, SSL/TLS, user provisioning
Nice to have
- SAP Basis and HANA certification (SAP Certified Technology Associate/Consultant); HANA 2.0 certification a strong plus
- 2+ full-cycle SAP implementations, major upgrade projects, or S/4HANA conversions
- Cloud experience (SAP Cloud Platform, S/4HANA Cloud, AWS, or similar)
- SAP HANA database administration and optimization experience
- DevOps and infrastructure automation (Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, or equivalent)
- Scripting/automation experience (shell, Python, or equivalent) for infrastructure-as-code
- Advanced security topics including SSO technologies, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related technical discipline
Full description
Job DescriptionADP is hiring a Site Reliability EngineerAre you a proven SAP Basis and S/4HANA engineer with deep platform expertise? Do you thrive solving complex infrastructure and performance challenges at enterprise scale?
Ready to lead technical strategy for mission-critical global systems? Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?
In this role, you will operate, optimize, and continuously evolve ADP's SAP platform that supports our GlobalView Business serving multinational payroll and HR clients globally. You will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) driving system performance, availability, and scalability across enterprise systems while mentoring teams and shaping infrastructure decisions that impact thousands of businesses relying on ADP's services. No two days are the same.
You'll balance strategic initiatives with hands-on technical problem-solving—architecting capacity expansions one day, diagnosing critical production incidents the next. Your days include performance tuning sessions, code reviews of basis configurations, mentoring junior administrators through complex migrations, designing disaster recovery strategies, and collaborating with business stakeholders to align infrastructure with evolving requirements.
From proactive system monitoring to reactive incident leadership, you'll operate with both depth and breadth, always focused on platform stability and innovation.
To thrive in this SAP platform Site Reliability engineer role, you'll need extensive expertise in SAP Basis and HANA architecture, J2EE platforms, and enterprise database administration (Oracle, SQL Server, HANA, or equivalent). You'll also need strong experience with SAP Basis administration, system performance tuning, security hardening, and integration technologies (SAP BTP). Our best platform engineers are strategic thinkers who balance operational excellence with innovation—they stay current with SAP technology roadmaps, mentor others, and advocate for continuous improvement. They're comfortable owning both legacy optimization and next-gen cloud migrations, and they excel at translating technical complexity into clear communication for business leaders.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Here's what you can expect on a typical day in the life of a Site Reliability Engineer at ADP.System Administration: Maintain & Support existing SAP workloads on prem and new S/4 HANA systems on RISE.Support SAP RISE migration: Support migration to SAP ECS/RISE.Portal Administration & SSO: Configure and maintain Portal infrastructure SSO integration (including Single Sign-On technologies and security configurations). Support Web Dispatchers and supplemental technologies (Apache, firewalls, certificate management).Performance & Optimization: Proactively monitor system health using SAP tools (Solution Manager, Performance Analyzer, ST04, ST03), identify bottlenecks, and drive tuning initiatives.