Perm - 4 days per week on site - 1 remote
Role Purpose
Provide end-to-end SAP Basis administration across NetWeaver and SAP HANA, ensuring stable, secure and performant SAP landscapes. You'll handle monitoring, tuning, upgrades, DR, and act as an escalation point for complex incidents and changes.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver SAP Basis/NetWeaver & HANA support, monitoring, performance tuning and capacity management.
* Maintain robust operational procedures to keep environments available and compliant (backup/recovery, patching, housekeeping).
* Perform error trend analysis and drive proactive problem management to reduce repeat issues.
* Support infrastructure & platform initiatives (eg, DR planning and testing, rollouts to connected systems, version/feature upgrades).
* Act as escalation point for complex service requests, incidents, configuration and enhancements.
* Configure systems to meet business requirements and oversee deployment of related technical components.
* Manage and resolve service requests/incidents to maintain effective business operations.
* Produce and maintain clear, current documentation (runbooks, standards, procedures).
Additional Information
Success in this role relies on a willingness to learn, strong ownership, and excellent communication/interpersonal skills-you'll work closely with stakeholders across business and IT, and adopt new technologies/processes that support strategy.
Knowledge & ExperienceMandatory
* 4+ years hands-on SAP Basis operations.
* SAP HANA on Unix/Linux: administration, backup/recovery, DR activities.
* HANA performance tuning and troubleshooting.
* Experience across SAP solutions such as ECC, BW, TM, APO, PI/PO, IBP, C4C, Cloud Connector, Fiori (exposure to S/4HANA and BW/4HANA desirable).
* Installations, upgrades and patching at both database and application layers.
Desired
* SAP certification(s) (Basis/HANA).
* Experience with RISE with SAP and hyperscaler deployments.
* Change & Transport Management (CTS/CTS+), SAP Process Management.
* System refresh/copy procedures.
* Integration experience with PI/PO and related Middleware.
* Security management (user/admin, roles, SoD awareness).
* Core system maintenance (stop/start, profile parameters, Kernel updates).
* Automation (scripts, scheduling, monitoring tools).
* Technical archiving, HANA replication, SLD administration.
* Strong written/verbal communication; able to work independently and in a team.