Administers and optimizes multi-tier SAP Basis and HANA environments, including system installations, refreshes, transports, performance tuning, backups, disaster recovery, high availability, patching, upgrades, security, authorization, workload analysis, and cloud connectivity. The role requires troubleshooting enterprise infrastructure across Linux-based SAP landscapes and managing HANA replication, system parameters, audit logs, and maintenance workflows.
This is a remote position.
SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator
Job Details
- Employment Type: Contract
- Work Mode: Remote
- Location: Offshore
- Total Experience Required: 5 to 8 years
- Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated SAP Basis system administration and HANA database management experience
- Mandatory Certification: SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP NetWeaver or S/4HANA) or SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator to oversee the stability, performance, and security of our enterprise infrastructure. The ideal candidate will manage cross-environment landscape architectures, optimize HANA in-memory performance parameters, govern system sizing, and lead patch upgrades to ensure absolute platform availability.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and optimize multi-tier SAP landscape architectures, supervising installation, client copies, system refreshes, and transport management system (TMS) configurations.
- Manage and fine-tune SAP HANA databases, auditing memory allocations, row/column store distribution, CPU utilisation, and delta merge execution frequencies.
- Orchestrate backup and disaster recovery frameworks, configuring high availability (HA) nodes, SAP HANA system replication (HSR), and bare-metal restore protocols.
- Execute system maintenance tasks, applying Support Packages, SAP Notes, Kernel upgrades, and executing core component version upgrades using Software Update Manager (SUM).
- Govern platform security policies, defining system parameters, managing cryptography layers, tracking audit logs, and configuring complex user authorization structures.
- Conduct rigorous workload analysis and system tuning, diagnosing bottlenecks using SAP Solution Manager, HANA Cockpit, DB02, and ST03N transaction monitors.
- Support cloud infrastructure connectivity, configuring network parameters, RFC destinations, web dispatcher routing, and cloud-to-on-premise data connections.
Requirements
- 5 to 8 years of core enterprise IT infrastructure engineering experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining SAP Basis landscapes.
- Strong technical mastery of SAP NetWeaver architecture, Linux operating systems (SUSE/RHEL), SAP HANA Studio/Cockpit management, and SQL scripting.
- Deep structural understanding of system memory limits, memory dump troubleshooting, security encryption, and transport transport paths.
- Mandatory certification: SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration OR SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior cloud migration infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud hosting configurations).
- Experience implementing automated Basis maintenance workflows or managing system telemetry alerts within large scale, multi-region database landscapes.
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