Database Administrator - SAP HANA / SAP Basis

Description:

• Administer, monitor, maintain, upgrade, patch, tune, and troubleshoot highly available SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
• Perform SAP HANA installations, revision upgrades, backups and recovery, system replication, tenant database management, user and role administration, security hardening, and system copies or refreshes.
• Manage SAP NetWeaver ABAP and SAP S/4HANA operations, including kernel and support package maintenance, transports, clients, background jobs, RFC connections, spool administration, and availability checks.
• Configure and troubleshoot SAP Cloud Connector, including subaccounts, high availability, certificates, trust relationships, access mappings, virtual hosts, ports, and SAP BTP connectivity.
• Support SAP Analytics Cloud integrations with SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA, including live and import connections, agents, authentication, certificates, and end-to-end troubleshooting.
• Configure and operate SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Access, including Data Provisioning Agent, remote sources, flowgraphs, replication tasks, subscriptions, adapters, and monitoring.
• Diagnose SDI latency, failed tasks, connectivity and certificate issues, database errors, and data consistency problems while coordinating with technical teams.
• Maintain SSL/TLS certificates, trust stores, and secure communication configurations across enterprise systems.
• Develop operational procedures, architecture documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Participate in incident response, change management, disaster recovery exercises, capacity planning, and on-call support.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP HANA database administration and SAP Basis support.
• Experience supporting SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Basis, and cloud-connected SAP applications in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with SAP Cloud Connector, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BTP, and SDI/Data Provisioning Agent integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• SAP HANA, SAP Basis, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, or SAP Analytics Cloud certifications are strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio or Database Explorer, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run preferred.
• Knowledge of firewalls, load balancers, DNS, proxies, DMZs, private connectivity, and third-party cloud environments.
• Ability to work independently, investigate unfamiliar issues, collaborate across infrastructure, security, network, and application teams, and resolve problems in regulated environments.

Benefits:

• Remote work arrangement.
• 1+ year contract engagement.
• Hourly rate available upon request.