Position: SAP BASIS Administrator
Company: Virtuace
Experience required: 5y
Category: Other
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Virtuace on behalf of our client — an American insurance company is looking for the SAP BASIS Administrator to join our team.
You will be responsible for reviewing and performing required system changes, solution design, server architecture and performance analysis.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
• In depth technical skills in managing SAP systems, HANA DBs and integration interfaces
• Review and perform impact analysis on application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements. Translate them to technical architecture and system/server configuration requirements
• Provide input into final decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software and security
• Collaborate with the SAP HANA application implementation 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
• Experience in automation in the SAP on Cloud space, GCP deployments, High-Availability Disaster Recovery
• Have supported 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 when required
• Install and upgrade SAP HANA Databases in a scale-up and scale-out environment
• Has working knowledge of SUSE Linux enterprise High Availability cluster
• Set up three-tier HANA System Replication•Troubleshot Hana memory bottlenecks, tune performance and manage workload
• Establish, implement, and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for SAP HANA
• Set up HANA SSO/SAML
• Support SAP Bank Analyzer and BW Hana environment
• Set up CTS+ plus for HANA transports
• Install, upgrade, set up, and monitor HANA Database cockpit
• Implement/Maintain Solution Manager Monitoring Alerts, configuring object metrics for App Server, HDB and OS level 
• Experience configuring and maintaining Solution Manager CHARM, Add/remove systems via SLD, Add remove Systems via CUA
• BOBJ administration experience, configuring new systems and moving content between them. Role synchronization with BW4HANA and BO CMC/BI tool administration
• BW4HANA Administration support experience, SDA, Business Objects integration and Security expertise
• Eclipse / HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit expert level exposure, role creation, role development, import/export content via HANA studio and promoting changes over the HDB landscape.
• Enforce security policies and access controls
• Must have significant experience of working in a multi partner scenario and a cross- culture environment
• ITIL Process framework and knowledge
• Work closely with other Support Organizations (DB, SAP functional and Infrastructure teams)
• Must have good knowledge of Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management and Problem Management processes based on ITIL Framework
• Contribute to team objectives, should have excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated, Team player, committed, able to work independently and adopt to changing environment
• Good problem-solving skills, able to prioritize among many conflicting needs, advocate a course of action, and pursue it consistently but flexible and responsive to dynamic situations
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase stakeholder value

REQUIRED TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (in order of level of need)
• 8+ years’ in IT management, with a background in ITIL or similar foundational technology platform discipline
• 8+ years’ 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, 
• Knowledge of web services based on SAP-Netweaver, SAP interfaces, SAP solutions
• Experience establishing and enforcing production operations methodologies
• Knowledge and expertise with the emerging technology trends such as S/4 HANA, Cloud, Mobility and IoT
• Understanding of the challenges of large-scale deployments, program management of deployment of enterprise grade software solutions
• Able to establish relationships with team members, management and vendors
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (will be tested during the interviews) 
• Technical strength in cloud computing – Compute, Storage, & Networking