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Technical Consultant & Premium Support Engineer - Linux for SAP

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026Deadline 10/31/26
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's
South Korea
In PersonRole is based on-site in South Korea.
Solution EngineeringImplementation & Technical Account Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven technical skills in designing and delivering enterprise-level solutions in Enterprise Linux and native Linux kernel-level virtualization.
  • Deep product expertise in SUSE KVM hypervisor (QEMU, libvirt), SLES, SLES for SAP Applications, and SLES High Availability Extension (SLE-HAE).
  • Familiarity with OpenStack APIs, cloud orchestrators, and software-defined networking.
  • Hands-on experience with migration tooling such as virt-v2v, qemu-img convert, SAP HANA System Replication (HSR), or third-party automated replication tools.
  • Strong understanding of physical server hardware tuning, including NUMA node placement boundaries, CPU pinning, and 1GB Huge Pages configurations for in-memory databases.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (and/or applicable experience).
  • 5+ years of foundational IT Services, Systems Engineering, or Support experience, combined with extensive experience in a high-tech or enterprise software company.
  • Demonstrated experience in data center migration projects, specifically executing VMware-to-KVM virtualization transitions for mission-critical enterprise workloads.
  • Experience working in an international environment alongside cross-regional R&D teams.
  • Fluency in both Korean and English is required.
  • Ability to appropriately handle tense or stressful customer situations regarding mission-critical service outages and database downtime.
  • Ability to work independently and across organizations on-site.
  • Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and form strong relationships with pre-sales, sales, and customer executives.
Responsibilities
  • Act as an on-site expert in identifying customer requirements, designing solution architecture, defining configuration, and deploying SUSE KVM and Linux solutions.
  • Lead Technical Design Document revisions and define step-by-step methodologies to validate the hypervisor codebase against strict SAP validation criteria.
  • Drive hardware and hypervisor validation plans for next-generation server architectures, including Intel Granite Rapids 2-Socket and 4-Socket servers for production SAP HANA and application workloads.
  • Architect and implement advanced virtualization enablement, including VM Live Migration, KVM Libvirt management layer configurations, and high-speed Fibre Channel SAN block storage mapping.
  • Design and execute migration Proof-of-Concepts to transition Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP virtual machines from VMware vSphere to SLES for SAP Applications on SUSE KVM.
  • Create consulting work packages and Statements of Work, and assist with technical documentation to support infrastructure build-out.
  • Provide advice and enablement to consulting partners and collaborate with approved technical partners on co-delivered enterprise solutions.
  • Provide full-time, day-to-day local support and serve as the dedicated technical contact and escalation point for the customer’s customized environment.
  • Learn customers’ business processes and configuration standards to diagnose and resolve environment-specific issues quickly under active database load.
  • Validate and troubleshoot critical Libvirt failover scenarios and KVM Host High Availability clusters using heartbeat-based cluster membership (Corosync/Pacemaker).
  • Implement and maintain STONITH fencing mechanisms using physical power-off (IPMI/iLO/iDRAC) or STONITH Block Devices paired with hardware watchdogs to prevent split-brain scenarios and dual-writer risks.
  • Advise customers on proactive maintenance, health checks, lifecycle patching, and deployment of SUSE software.
  • Facilitate a fast-track escalation path to ensure continuous operational runtime.
  • Write technical runbooks and operational guides, and distribute technical information such as patches and security news to customers.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager (formerly SUSE Manager) for lifecycle management, Trento for SAP configuration compliance auditing, and SES/Ceph or K8S/CaaS.
  • Project management skills.

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SUSE provides enterprise-grade, open-source Linux and container platforms sold via subscriptions. Its core offering is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which runs on x86-64, ARM, and IBM Z for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, with specialized editions like SLES for SAP Applications and edge-focused SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro. It differentiates itself with long-term enterprise support across diverse architectures, an integrated Kubernetes management layer via Rancher for multi-cloud operations, and container security through NeuVector. Goal: help businesses run mission-critical workloads securely and efficiently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments using a stable, supported open-source stack and related management and security tools.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$1.2B

Headquarters

Nuremberg, Germany

Founded

1992

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What believers are saying

  • April 21, 2026 SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA targets regulated enterprise AI budgets.
  • July 22, 2026 AMD validation expands SUSE AI Factory across EPYC and Instinct stacks.
  • September 15, 2026 SEAPATH and August 12, 2026 VMware replacements prove buyer demand.

What critics are saying

  • September 22, 2026 voluntary separation signals cost pressure and organizational churn.
  • Leap 16 killed YaST, X.org, and 32-bit support, risking admin backlash.
  • openSUSE Leap 16 mirrors SLES 16 sources, compressing differentiation and pricing power by 2027.

What makes SUSE unique

  • Leap 16 and SLES 16 share sources, preserving enterprise-community binary compatibility.
  • SUSE combines Linux, Rancher Prime, edge, and AI into one open infrastructure stack.
  • SUSE leads niche workloads like SAP, SEAPATH real-time substations, and sovereign AI.

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  • Life Insurance
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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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