The SAP Basis Administrator will manage and optimize the SAP S/4HANA landscape, ensuring system stability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include performing installations, upgrades, patching, system refreshes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical operations.
This is a remote position.
The Opportunity:
Join a team where your technical expertise directly powers mission‑critical business operations. As an SAP Basis Administrator, you’ll take ownership of a dynamic SAP S/4HANA landscape, ensuring its stability, performance, and security. You’ll collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, database, functional, and development teams to shape a highly optimized SAP environment. This role offers the opportunity to lead key lifecycle initiatives—implementations, upgrades, cloud transitions, and modernization projects—while helping build a resilient enterprise platform that supports long‑term organizational success.
Responsibilities:
- Administer SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Solution Manager, Fiori, Gateway, Web Dispatcher, SAP BTP, and related system components.
- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SAP systems following vendor and organizational best practices.
- Perform SAP kernel upgrades, support package deployments, Enhancement Packages, and SUM-based activities.
- Execute SAP system copies, client copies, refreshes, and full landscape cloning.
- Monitor system health, performance, availability, and capacity using SAP tools and enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Troubleshoot SAP Basis issues including performance, transport failures, connectivity, and system errors.
- Manage SAP Transport Management System (TMS), including sequencing and migrations across all environments.
- Coordinate maintenance windows, technical deployments, and outage communications to minimize disruption.
- Support SAP High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) design, testing, and execution.
- Perform SAP user administration and work with security teams on technical authorization requirements.
- Conduct system housekeeping tasks such as background job monitoring, spool management, interface checks, and log reviews.
- Collaborate with DBAs on SAP HANA backup, recovery, tuning, and optimization activities.
- Support integrations with middleware, identity management, authentication platforms, and external systems.
- Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and configuration baselines.
- Assist with ATO, RMF, STIG compliance, vulnerability remediation, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action planning for production incidents.
- Support cloud‑based SAP environments including SAP RISE and hybrid architecture deployments.
- Provide technical assistance during new deployments, releases, and ongoing sustainment operations.
Qualifications:
Required:
- US Citizenship is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on experience administering SAP Basis in enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, or similar SAP platforms.
- Proven experience with SAP installations, upgrades, patches, and technical migrations.
- Strong knowledge of SAP Transport Management System (TMS).
- Experience supporting SAP HANA databases.
- Working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows systems running SAP applications.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve SAP performance and availability issues.
- Solid understanding of SAP architecture and technical landscape design.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
- 10% Travel every 12 weeks to Scott Air Force Base.
Desired:
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP S/4HANA).
- Experience with SAP Solution Manager, including Focused Run.
- Experience administering SAP Fiori.
- Experience supporting SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
- Experience working with SAP cloud environments.