SAP BASIS Administrator

SAP Basis Admin

Location: Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Garden City, NY; Houston, TX; Lenexa, KS; Lubbock, TX; Morristown, NJ; Mt Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Purchase, NY; Topeka, KS – Hybrid 03 days per week

Duration: Long Term

Visa: Any

Experience: 10+ Years

Review and perform required system changes, solution design, server architecture and performance analysis. Analyze process gaps and fine tune as and when required.

• Ensure delivery within the defined SLA and agreed milestones (projects) by following best practices and processes and observing KPI’s for continuous service improvement.
• Interact with other teams (functional, ABAP teams), to understand functional/technical requirement, and solve issues in the system administration area.
• Collaborate with the SAP HANA application implementation team and the infrastructure team to ensure proper implementation, sustainable support, and peak performance.
• Execute common SAP and industry standard daily/weekly/monthly maintenance, BASIS administration procedures for SAP HANA.
• Install, upgrade, and monitor SAP HANA Databases / HANA Database Cockpit in a scale-up and scale-out environment.
• Setup three-tier HANA System Replication.
• Troubleshoot HANA memory bottlenecks, tune performance and manage workload.
• Establish, implement, and test disaster recovery and test business continuity solutions for SAP HANA.
• Configure HANA SSO/SAML.
• Support SAP Bank Analyzer and the BW HANA environment.
• Set up CTS+ for HANA transports.
• Implement & maintain solution manager monitoring alerts, configure object metrics for App Server, HDB, and OS level.

Technical Qualifications

• Possess in depth technical skills in managing SAP systems, HANA DBs, and integration interfaces.
• Experience with the review and coordination of impact analysis on application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements. Able to translate them to technical architecture and system/server configuration requirements.
• Able to provide input into final decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software, and security.
• Experience in automation in the SAP on Cloud space, GCP deployments, and High-Availability Disaster Recovery.
• Experience with the support of SAP systems running on High Availability platforms, capable of troubleshooting the system startup and performance issues.
• Experience in L1 administration of Red Hat and SUSE Linux is required.
• Working knowledge of SUSE Linux enterprise High Availability cluster.
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of Solution Manager CHARM. Able to add/remove systems via SLD & CUA.
• BOBJ administration experience. Able to configure new systems and move content between them.
• Prior experience with role synchronization with BW4HANA and BO CMC/BI tool administration.
• BW4HANA administration support experience, SDA, Business Objects integration and security expertise.
• Ability to enforce security policies and access controls.
• Possess expert level experience in Eclipse, HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit. Candidate
• Expert-level proficiency in Eclipse/HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit, including role creation and development, content import/export via HANA Studio, and promoting changes across the HDB landscape.
• Knowledgeable of web services based on SAP-Netweaver, SAP interfaces, SAP solutions.
• Knowledge and expertise with emerging technologies such as S/4 HANA, Cloud, Mobility, and IOT.

General Qualifications

• Able to contribute to team objectives.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Self-motivated, Team player, committed, able to work independently, and able to adapt to a changing environment.
• Good problem-solving skills, able to prioritize objectives among many conflicting needs.
• Capable to advocate a course of action and pursue it consistently, but flexible and responsive to dynamic situations.
• Experience with the creation and enforcement of production operation methodologies.
• 8+ years in IT management, with a background in ITIL or similar foundational technology platform discipline.
• 10+ years of SAP experience, preferably in a global implementation of SAP FS-RI, FS-CD and FICO modules.
• 7+ years’ experience as an ABAP Developer, or BASIS administrator.