About the position

As a SAP BASIS Consultant, you will be a key player in the consulting team that helps support the end client's SAP System for BASIS and Security functionality of the SAP HANA System with the Global Team on this project. You will be responsible for knowledge transfer with the objective of providing value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape. For 10+ years, our client has been providing SAP Support services for this Aerospace & Defense end client, delivering mission-critical support to the DoD and Intelligence Community. This is a contract to hire role after 6 months. Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen or Green Card and will be subject to a background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Support system administration, manufacturing, SCM, PM, QM, Transportation management, and release management.
• Install SAP systems and components
• Configure application servers and databases
• Set up development, QA, training, and production environments
• Perform system copies and client copies
• Monitor SAP system health
• Manage work processes
• Check system logs and dumps
• Monitor CPU, memory, disk space, and network utilization
• Ensure system availability and uptime
• Create and maintain SAP users
• Assign roles and profiles
• Lock/unlock accounts
• Manage password policies
• Support GRC and audit requirements
• Analyze system bottlenecks
• Optimize database performance
• Tune SAP buffers
• Analyze expensive SQL statements
• Coordinate with DBAs and developers
• Manage transport landscape
• Import/export transports
• Resolve transport failures
• Coordinate releases across environments
• Apply SAP Support Packages
• Implement SAP Notes
• Upgrade SAP releases
• Perform kernel upgrades
• Support S/4HANA migrations
• Database backups
• Recovery testing
• Performance monitoring
• HANA administration
• Space management
• Schedule backups
• Validate recovery procedures
• Maintain DR environments
• Execute recovery testing
• Manage HANA Studio
• Manage HANA Cockpit
• Manage Replication
• Manage Tenant databases
• Manage HANA security
• Manage HANA performance optimization
• Support technical connectivity for SAP PI/PO, SAP CPI, RFC connections, IDocs, Web Services, Middleware integrations
• Design and support Load balancing, Clustering, Failover, Distributed SAP landscapes, Cloud deployments

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution.
• At least 3-8 years of experience with SAP working on BASIS and/or Security.
• Expert-level proficiency in SAP Basis Administration, SCM, Plant Maintenance, Quality Mgmt, Transport Management (STMS), and Release Management.
• S/4HANA project experience.
• CompTIA Security+ certification
• Good knowledge of SAP coding, capacity to debug/understand existing code.
• Experience with middleware/legacy system integrations.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities to identify and address complex issues and challenges related to the SAP product.
• Proactive attitude towards driving continuous improvement of the SAP product and processes.
• User administration
• Monitoring
• Basic transport management
• Backup monitoring
• System refreshes
• Performance tuning
• Upgrades
• HANA administration
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP HANA Database Administration
• SAP Cloud (RISE with SAP)
• SAP BTP
• Linux Administration
• Azure/AWS
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Focused Run
• SAP Security/GRC
• Automation & scripting (PowerShell, Python, Shell)

Nice-to-haves

• This position may require travel to project / client locations occasionally.
• At least 4-8 years of proven experience as an SAP BASIS Consultant on minimum of one HANA and 1 support experience on projects
• Must Have SAP Technical BASIS and some Security Skills
• Aerospace & Defense and/or U.S. Federal manufacturing/MRO a BIG PLUS.
• SAP certification in BASIS, HANA, preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP Cloud ALM coming and hybrid method to use with SolMan
• Architecture design
• S/4HANA migrations
• Disaster recovery
• HA/DR design
• Cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Contract to Hire role after 6 months