SAP Basis Consultant

Role: Senior SAP Basis Consultant

Location: Pune/ Nagpur, Maharashtra - Onsite Office

Duration: Fulltime

Experience: 8 to 12 years

Working Hours: US EST time shift (6:30 PM to 3:30 AM IST)

Notice Period: Immediate or 15 days max.

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.