Job Description:
Scope of the work is to support SAP RISE migration projects and the installation, maintenance and ongoing operations of multiple SAP systems residing on Windows & Linux / Oracle & HANA platforms in a virtualized environment. We are looking for a senior consultant with at least 15 years of experience in SAP and HANA basis administration and migration/upgrade projects (upgrade to S/4HANA and migration to RISE/Cloud).
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 9 hours per day plus participation in planned 24x7 on-call rotation. The candidates shall also work during monthly maintenance windows, usually performed during first weekend of the month (one day per month, on average).
Required Profile:
• Working experience with latest versions of the following products: ECC, BO, BI, PI, Portal, Solman, SLT, SRM, CRM, Fiori, TM, EM, GRC, Redwood, IDM, HANA, NWDI and Java administration. 4+ years of experience with Oracle database administration; 2+ years of experience with Linux Operating Systems administration.
• Required working experience on SAP HANA and HANA enterprise DB, and related High Availability setup, configurations, and maintenance.
• Good understanding of SAP Security
• Must have a good understanding of network concepts.
• Nice to have: SAP certifications on administrations on components like – ECC, NetWeaver, Solution Manager, Portal, HANA, SCM, SRM.
• Working experience with DB export/import technique and homogeneous/heterogeneous system copy
• Experience in global SAP implementation programs a plus
• Able to understand and operate within complex technical environments
• Solid troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and maintain a clear purpose while working under pressure
• Ability to work cross-functionally and across multiple time zones with others to support SAP applications
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Fluent in English
Scope of Work / Duties of Consultant:
• Perform SAP application installations, application of patches, upgrades, and production support for multiple SAP products (., ECC, BI, SCM, Solution Manager, Enterprise Portal, PI, .
• Support the upgrade migration of on-premise workload to SAP RISE (upgrade to S/4HANA as target release).
• HANA administration, including setting up and managing HA and replica of HANA nodes.
• Perform regular day-today administration and support tasks.
• Monitor, identify and implement Oracle/HANA database performance improvements as required by the SAP systems.
• Work together with the OS and infrastructure administrators to ensure that the environment is
adequately tuned for each SAP system and client.
• Assist in the sizing of SAP applications and application components.
• Perform client and system copies, new SAP instance installation support, table reorganizations, connectivity and general maintenance as required by the designated focal points.
• Performs all tasks associated with transport management, including rigorous documentation of all transports applied.
• Configure monitoring and backup solutions. Schedule and monitor backup jobs
• Perform ad-hoc backups and restores, as required by authorized focal points
• Monitor and proactively tune all SAP systems and clients to ensure adequate performance as per established parameters.
• Perform SAP Security Administration: creation of new job roles, creation of new user accounts, assignment of job roles to user accounts, etc.
• Conduct timely troubleshooting, incident management and resolution
• Report and coordinate product related issues with SAP and liaise with SAP as required for special actions such as access keys, etc.
• Propose new standards and maintain existing approved SAP Netweaver/Basis standard operating procedures
• Create and update Standard Operating Procedures documenting the function, in coordination with the rest of the team
• Share knowledge with other SAP NetWeaver/Basis administrators and document all solutions as per standard formats
• Collaborate effectively with other teams on requirements gathering, process improvement and in the design, development, and implementation of an SAP architecture to promote a scalable, robust, and manageable environment.
• Provide technical guidance to SAP application development teams and assist with problem
resolution.
• Analyze data access, integration, and storage requirements for the HANA/Oracle databases
sustaining the SAP environments.
• Comply with and enforce change management/transport procedures.
• Provide suggestion and strategy for an effective
Required Soft Skills:
• Customer facing experience and oral communication skills
• Ability to write documentation & reports
• Creativity/ ability to find innovative solutions
• Willingness to learn on the job
• Conflict management & cooperation