SAP Basis HANA Consultant

SAP BASIS Consultant HANA (6–8 Years)

Role Summary

SAP BASIS Consultant (HANA focus)

Key Responsibilities

• Landscape Administration:

  Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain SAP systems (S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, ECC on HANA, Solution Manager, Fiori Gateway, PI/PO, GRC as applicable).

• HANA DB Administration:

  HANA sizing, installation, revision updates, HANA Studio/HDI, tenant management, backups, log retention, encryption, and performance tuning.

• System Performance & Availability:

  Proactive monitoring (CCMS, SOLMAN, FRUN/Cockpit 2.0), root-cause analysis, memory/CPU optimization, buffer tuning, work-process management.

• Transport & Change Management:

  Set up and manage CTS/CTS+, ChaRM, retrofit, and transport path governance across Dev/QA/Prod.

• High Availability & DR:

  Design and manage

  HANA System Replication

  , failover testing, cluster tools (e.g., Pacemaker), backup/restore validation, and DR drills.

• Security & Compliance:

  User/admin role design (SU01, PFCG), SNC/SSO, securebydefault configs, audit readiness (SOX/ISO), kernel/patch governance, and vulnerability remediation.

• Upgrades & Migrations:

  EHP/SPS updates,

  S/4HANA conversions

  , Unicode and OS/DB migrations (SUM/DMO), maintenance planner, stack XML, SUM tool operations.

• Cloud & Automation:

  Manage SAP in

  Azure/AWS/GCP

  (if applicable), including network/storage design, scaling, snapshots; scripting (Shell/Python/PowerShell) and automation for routine ops.

• Housekeeping & Ops:

  Job scheduling, spool/temse cleanup, archiving coordination, interface monitoring (RFC/IDoc), printer configs.

• Documentation & KT:

  Create SOPs, runbooks, topology diagrams, and provide knowledge transfer to support teams.

• Collaboration:

  Partner with SAP functional teams, developers, security, infra/cloud teams, and vendors to deliver stable operations and project outcomes.

Must-Have Skills

• 6–8 years in

  SAP BASIS

  with

  3+ years focused on HANA

  .
• Strong hands-on with: 

• SAP HANA administration

  (installation, tenant mgmt, backups, SR, performance, encryption).

• S/4HANA/BW/4HANA

  and

  NetWeaver

  stack (ABAP/Java).

• SUM/DMO

  , Maintenance Planner, SWPM, SPAM/SAINT, kernel upgrades.

• High availability

  (HANA System Replication, cluster mgmt),

  backup/restore

  , DR planning.

• Security

  : SNC/SSO, SSL/TLS, certificates, secure endpoints, user/role administration.

• Transport management

  (CTS/CTS+, ChaRM) and environment governance.

• Monitoring

  via Solution Manager and/or

  FRUN

  , HANA Cockpit/Studio, EWA/Service Level Reports.

• OS & Linux

  administration fundamentals, filesystem, networking, and storage concepts.
• Proven experience troubleshooting complex performance and availability issues end-to-end.

Good-to-Have

• Experience with

  Azure/AWS/GCP

  for SAP (compute, storage, backup, HA/DR design).
• Automation/scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell), Ansible/Terraform exposure.
• Experience with

  Fiori

  ,

  Web Dispatcher

  , SAProuter,

  Gateway

  .
• Exposure to

  BW on HANA

  performance tuning, SDA/SDI.
• Integration with

  SAML, Azure AD, IAM

  , and SIEM logging.
• Understanding of

  SAP license

  models, sizing (Quick Sizer), and cost optimization in cloud.
• Experience with

  SAP Focused Run (FRUN)

  .
• Familiarity with

  GRC

  ,

  PI/PO

  ,

  BTP

  connectivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Certifications (Preferred):

• SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA

  (e.g., C_HANATEC).

• SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP HANA as a database) with SAP NetWeaver/SAP S/4HANA

  .
• Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP) for SAP workloads are a plus.

Tools & Technologies

• SAP:

  HANA Cockpit/Studio

  ,

  Solution Manager / FRUN

  , SWPM, SUM/DMO, SPAM/SAINT, Maintenance Planner, SAProuter, Web Dispatcher.
• OS/Infra: Linux (RHEL/SLES), Pacemaker/Corosync, NFS/SAN, Load balancers.
• Monitoring/ITSM: EWA, CCMS, Grafana/Prometheus (nice), ServiceNow/Jira.
• Security: OpenSSL, SSO/SNC, Certificates, SAML/OAuth.
• Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell.
• Versioning/DevOps (nice): Git, CI/CD hooks for transports.

Experience Range

• 6–8 years total

  in SAP BASIS with at least

  3 years focused on HANA

  in production environments.
• Hands-on participation in

  at least 2

  endtoend

  upgrades or conversions

  (e.g., ECC to S/4HANA or major SPS upgrades) and

  1+ HANA migration

  (DMO/OS-DB).

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