Job Details

SAP Basis Administrator

Department: Technology & Software

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote - USA

Compensation: $175,000 - $240,000 / year

Description

The candidate will support a variety of SAP development, testing, and automation environments by maintaining and supporting the production landscapes. Technical skills would range from standard daily support of SAP S/4HANA, ECC, HANA, Business Intelligence landscapes within Cloud/On premise environments hosted in various operating systems, to migrating systems, replicate and solve customer issues and troubleshooting system performance problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch and upgrade SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA, ECC, BW systems and Add-ons (SAP router, Solution Manager).
• Manage SAP system landscapes (development, QA, production) including clients, instances, and transports.
• Install and maintain SAP kernels and support packages; apply OSS notes and SAP patches.
• Proactively monitor system health (CPU, memory, DB, I/O), job schedules, spool and application logs, tune parameters for performance.
• Implement and manage SAP early-watch/health checks, alerting, and automated monitoring.
• Administer supported databases (HANA, Oracle, MSSQL, DB2): backups, restores, high-availability, and disaster recovery planning/testing.
• Manage storage, file systems, and growth forecasting, coordinate capacity planning with infrastructure team.
• Manage SAP user administration, roles/authorizations (PFCG), SSO, and integration with corporate identity providers (AD/Azure AD).
• Administer CTS/CTS+ and ChaRM processes; enforce transport governance and maintain transport routes.
• Support release cycles, coordinate cutovers, perform system clones and refreshes.
• Participate in system upgrades, migrations (on-prem cloud), S/4HANA conversions and platform modernization projects.
• Implement automation for repetitive tasks (shell, PowerShell, Python, SAP tools).
• Operate SAP on virtualized and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including cost optimization, instance sizing, and cloud-native backup/replication.
• Manage SAP-specific cloud services (HANA on cloud, SAP Cloud Platform connectivity).
• Support integrations, middleware connectivity, and troubleshoot cross-system issues.
• SAP Solution Manager, SAP HANA Studio, HANA Cockpit, DB tools (Oracle RMAN, SQL Server), OS (Linux variants, Windows, AIX), monitoring (Nagios, Prometheus, Dynatrace), cloud consoles (AWS/Azure/GCP).

• BS in Computer Science.
• 4+ years of experience in BASIS administration, system refreshes and migrations, user support, and cloud migration.
• Strong Security and Authorization experience managing multiple instances of SAP environments
• 4+ years of experience managing TCP/IP based networks, enterprise applications, and databases (HANA, MySQL, MAX DB, MS SQL, and Oracle)
• Experienced in at least one full cycle install implementation and two module-based implementations (HR, FICO, SD/MM).
• Experienced in Configuration and maintenance of Solution manager systems and configure satellite systems.
• Experienced in Single-Sign-on Microsoft Windows Domain and Enterprise Portal.
• Experienced in setting up Fiori launchpad, custom roles, various apps and gateway administration.
• Management of UNIX (Linux/Unix/Solaris) systems
• System process standardization and system stabilization.
• Good written and verbal communication skills