Whats this role about?
SAP Basis S/4 Hana Consultant
10 to 15 years
Good to have certification too.
Heres how youll contribute:
Youll do this by:
- Implement and maintain the multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training and production).
- Maintain the integrity of the SAP environment by managing the SAP Correction and Transport System (CTS) to ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly.
- Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
- Design and implement an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
- Install and configure all required SAP database servers and application servers.
- Manage SAP users, authorizations, and profiles.
- Distribute the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workload.
- Configure and manage the SAP printing subsystem for all SAP instances.
- Maintain SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
- Monitor all SAP systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space, etc.).
- Administer the SAP database with Database Administrator (plan and perform database upgrades, apply database maintece, design and maintain physical database layout, perform database reorganizations, design and implement backup and restore strategy, maintain database security, administer database performance, manage database storage, database problem determination and resolution, etc.).
- Perform SAP client administration (create client, copy client, delete client, export/import client) as required.
- Participate in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades.
- Apply and migrate SAP maintece (hot packages and kernel upgrades) through all systems using a structured methodology.
- Develop and maintain system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
- Provide status reports for projects to management.
- Perform all SAP Basis related activities including; SAP installations, maintece and on-going support of multiple SAP Landscapes
- Handle the incident / service requests investigation, diagnosis and resolutions where possible
- Perform application level support or implementations or implementations to customer s infrastructure
- Change to the SAP environment according to customer need
- Role is expected to have occasional on-call responsibilities interaction with clients for consultation, project execution, SAP landscape performance tuning, and other activities associated with support of leveraged SAP environments
- Work with OS & DB Administrators for optimal SAP Performance
- Database administration IBM DB2/6 and SAP HANA, ability to perform database upgrades, apply Fix packs, optimizing and tuning databases, handle nightly backups and their integration with third party backup systems, backup and restore strategies, database security, database problem determination and resolution
- Manage system performance, upgrades, corrections, and transport management (CTS/TMS), client and landscape strategies, batch scheduling
- Provide technical upgrades functional and technical enhancements
- Installation, upgrade and maintece of SAP and SAP related software products
- Maintain HANA database, perform patch and service stack upgrades
- SAP XI including the installation of adapters provided by SAP and external partners, configuration of the required system connections to partner systems and activation of basic XI monitoring
- Perform SAP Software Installation, maintece and administration of UNIX and Windows based servers running SAP FI/HR/SRM/Portal, Solution Manager, Fiori, Hana, Gateway, SAP Cloud appliances)
- Daily monitoring, administrating, troubleshooting and tuning of all SAP systems
- Candidates must have at least a Bachelors/College Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in SAP Basis Administration
- SAP Basis administration work experience
- Is strong to excellent in written and oral communication skills
- 4- 7 years SAP Netweaver application server administration in UNIX- environment
- 1 - 3 years of SAP Solution Manager planning, configuration, and administration to support centralized monitoring, alerting, root cause and analysis, and HP ALM integration
- Optimizing, monitoring and configuring the SAP environments - Development, Quality Assurance and Production systems in line with business requirements
- Ability to meet SLAs and project deadlines
- Core experience working with SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 4 environments, SAP XI (PI) (dual stack), SAP BW (HANA), Solution Manager Systems (dual stack) configuration, EWA, Mopz
- Ability to implement changes to the SAP environment in a structured approach using change control processes that minimizes risk and ensures high system availability and performance for each of the SAP systems
- SAP Archiving experience a plus
- Interact with customers and vendors to maintain operating condition at optimum level
- Research and develop solutions for specific customer requests and transfer knowledge to rest of team
- Develop expertise on specific technologies and procedure, review system performance statistics, perform configuration modifications and fixes
- Review complex problem situations and identify preventive measures / improvements to processes, procedures or tools, and implement these as required
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all operational security and emergency procedures
- Setup and management SAP transport landscape including use of CHARM
- Meet with solutions architects, core team, select members of the IT team, developers, and project office personnel to ensure the necessary infrastructure in place to support implementation of our SAP solutions
- Ability to use and administrate Solution Manager
- Proficient in utilizing and searching the SAP Service Marketplace (OSS)
- Monitoring all SAP Architecture
- Manage landscape synchronization activities such as system clone and refresh activities
- Manage Early Watch and Go-Live checks, SAPGUI deployment
- Manage the resolution of Help Desk tickets, application server load balancing, printer troubleshooting and spool administration
- Plan and perform Basis disaster recovery testing
- Plan and perform High Availability testing
- Provide leadership and technical direction to team members and consultants
- Manage overall SAP note implementations and drive technical SAP incidents to resolution
- Document and maintain landscape diagrams and component versions
- Develop and enforce process and procedures
- Knowledge of Shell and Perl programming
- Drive utilization of Solution Manager in managing the technical landscape
- Work and manage any 3rd party system integrator and application support teams
- Displays a strong work ethic and sense of urgency
- SAP Basis Administration including analysis of the SAP system log, monitoring of processes, analysis and clean-up of update terminations, analysis and clean-up of lock entries and checking for ABAP dumps
- Transports & Change Control including the release and transfer of transport orders, maintain transport protocols, plan and implement regularly scheduled change requests, resolve technical and functional transport problems and document transport activities
- Support and implementation of Systems Management processes (Backup, Disaster-Recovery, Transport, ALM)
- Troubleshooting and Monitoring of SAP provided services and ensuring the availability of the services
- Work with internal staff, ACO staff and external vendors to resolve day-to-day technical issues
- Support of Business Applications, SAP BPC.
- Technical Project lead and coordination with GOPS, GBS development and functional teams to design and implement new features for SAP system tuning and performance sizing
- Evaluate and design of interfaces between SAP and external systems, maintece of the SAP Data Dictionary and database objects, and manage the migration/upgrades of SAP database and application configuration into production
- General problem resolution
- Set up SAP printers
- Implement recommendations and test (Application - , SAP Kernel)
- Perform activities/tasks as directed by team lead
- Working in local/remote matrixed teamwork environment
- Self-motivated and discipline to meet deadlines with speed, accuracy and professional attitude
- Work well with and through others within and outside IT
- Able to trouble-shoot a variety of situations - network, SAP system, database, etc, especially from within the SAP system
- Strong skills in project planning, and develop/maintain documentation for processes and procedures
- Installation and upgrades of SAP system as necessary
- Participate in planning and delivery of new dimensional SAP systems to meet expanding business requirements including Installation of Dual stack/SID (ABAP/Java)
- Implement Portal using Global Java solution and its performance tuning
- ITIL, Lean methodologies preferred
- Security management - definition of technical roles
- Operational support of our internal SAP systems, ECC, CRM, BI on HANA, PI, Solution Manager, Fiori, the operating system and database
- Perform daily checks on systems and interfaces and keeps business processes running
- Coordinate and perform updates and system refresh together with all stakeholders
- Adapt and investigate into new technologies planning and build-up of new systems
- Analyze current processes and contribute to its improvements
