The administrator will oversee the stability, performance, and security of the enterprise SAP landscape and HANA database infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing system architectures, executing maintenance tasks, and ensuring high availability through robust backup and disaster recovery protocols.
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.
Experience implementing automated Basis maintenance workflows or managing system telemetry alerts within large scale, multi-region database landscapes.
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