Role: SAP Basis Consultant
Location: Nagpur or Pune, Maharashtra (Onsite Office)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience: 6 to 8 years
Shift Time: EST Shift (06.30 PM to 03.30 AM IST)
Consultant needs to be flexible to work in different shifts, but primarily US EST time zone.
Notice Period: Immediate joiners preferred
Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis Consultant with 7–8 years of hands-on experience in SAP landscape administration, system refreshes, cloud migrations, database administration, and integration technologies. The ideal candidate will be responsible for day-to-day SAP Basis operations, SAP system lifecycle management, cloud migration projects, database administration (Oracle and SAP HANA), and support for critical SAP integration components, including BW and SLT.
- The consultant will work closely with infrastructure, database, cloud, and application teams to ensure stable, secure, and high-performing SAP environments.
Key Responsibilities:
SAP Basis Administration & Operations:
- Perform day-to-day SAP Basis administration activities across SAP landscapes.
- Monitor and maintain SAP systems to ensure high availability and optimal performance.
- Manage SAP kernel upgrades, support package implementations, and system patching.
- Administer SAP transport management (TMS) and change management processes.
- Troubleshoot SAP application, database, and operating system issues.
- Manage SAP user administration, background jobs, spool management, and system health monitoring.
- Support incident, problem, and change management activities.
SAP System Refreshes & Client Administration:
- Perform SAP system copies, client copies, and system refresh activities across Development, QA, Sandbox, and Production environments.
- Execute homogeneous and heterogeneous system refreshes.
- Perform post-refresh activities including logical system updates, RFC reconfiguration, printer setup, and interface validation.
- Develop and maintain system refresh runbooks and automation procedures.
SAP Cloud Migration & Infrastructure:
- Participate in SAP Lift-and-Shift migrations from on-premises environments to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Support SAP migration tools such as SWPM, SUM, DMO, and migration factory methodologies.
- Execute SAP server migration, database migration, and cloud provisioning activities.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams for architecture design, sizing, HA/DR configuration, and performance optimization.
- Support cloud-native SAP operations and monitoring.
SAP BW & SLT Administration:
- Administer SAP BW systems and support BW integration activities.
- Configure and troubleshoot SAP BW source system connections.
- Support SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) replication environments.
- Monitor data replication jobs and resolve replication performance issues.
- Coordinate with functional and data teams during data migration and integration activities.
Database Administration:
- Perform Oracle database administration activities for SAP systems.
- Execute database backup, recovery, performance tuning, and space management.
- Administer SAP HANA databases including:
- Installation and upgrades
- HANA system replication
- Backup and recovery
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- HANA security administration
- Tenant database management
- Monitor database health and proactively address performance bottlenecks.
SAP Upgrades & Technical Projects:
- Support SAP upgrade, enhancement package, and migration projects.
- Participate in SAP S/4HANA transformation initiatives.
- Execute Unicode conversions and database migrations.
- Prepare technical documentation, implementation plans, and migration procedures.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery:
- Support SAP HA/DR solutions.
- Configure and monitor HANA System Replication.
- Support Oracle Data Guard environments.
- Participate in disaster recovery testing and business continuity planning.
Required Skills & Experience:
- SAP Technologies:
- SAP ECC
- SAP BW
- SAP Solution Manager
- SAP NetWeaver
- SAP SLT
- SAP Fiori (administration and connectivity)
- SAP S/4HANA exposure preferred
Database Skills:
- Oracle Database Administration
- SAP HANA Administration
- Backup and Recovery
- Performance Tuning
- Database Migration
Cloud Technologies:
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- SAP on Cloud Architecture
- Lift-and-Shift Migration Methodologies
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design
Operating Systems:
- Linux (RHEL, SUSE)
- Unix
- Windows Server
Tools & Utilities:
- SWPM
- SUM/DMO
- HANA Cockpit
- SAP Host Agent
- SAP Solution Manager
- Monitoring Tools
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 7–8 years of SAP Basis administration experience.
- Minimum 2 years of SAP cloud migration experience.
- Strong experience with Oracle and SAP HANA databases.
- Experience supporting ECC, PI, GTS, BW and SLT environments.
- Experience performing multiple SAP system refreshes and migration projects.
- Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP System Administration.
- SAP HANA Administration Certification.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS SAP Specialty, Azure Administrator, or equivalent cloud certification.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA migration projects.
- Experience with automation and scripting (Shell, Python, Ansible).
Key Competencies:
- SAP Landscape Management
- SAP Cloud Migration
- Oracle Administration
- SAP HANA Administration
- System Refresh & Cloning
- Performance Optimization
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Project Delivery
- Stakeholder Management
