SAP System Administrator- Expert

Client is seeking an SAP System Administrator - Expert to serve as the SAP HANA subject matter expert for the enterprise SAP landscape that runs the systems of record for Client

**The candidate must currently live in NC. The contractor will administer and support more than 100 production and non-production SAP HANA databases; provide SAP Basis expertise across all SAP products used by EBS; coordinate and implement technical changes, patches, and upgrades; participate in the duty manager on-call rotation and daily system checks; and support the in-flight migration of the EBS landscape to SAP NS2 (S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition).
The ideal candidate has deep hands-on SAP HANA administration experience at enterprise scale - including System Replication, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and upgrade and migration work - combined with broad SAP NetWeaver Basis administration across both ABAP and Java stacks, and is comfortable owning production availability in a large, heavily integrated public sector landscape.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provides technical expertise across all SAP products used by EBS
• HANA SME for 100+ databases
• Coordinate and implement technical changes and enhancements to SAP systems
• Operational support on our duty manager on call rotation
• Morning systems check and reporting status
• Assigned basis liaison on EBS Solution Manager problem messages
• Execute HANA System Replication, refreshes, and system copies supporting the migration to SAP NS2
• Apply HANA revisions, SAP kernel updates, and support package stacks across the S/D/Q/P landscape
• Monitor database performance and capacity and remediate issues beforethey affect availability

Preferred:
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA (e.g. C_HANATEC) orequivalent HANA certification
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAPNetWeaver / OS-DB)
• Experience with SAP RISE, SAP NS2, or S/4HANA Cloud Private Editionmigrations
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager (technical monitoring, ChaRM)and/or SAP Focused Run
• Experience running SAP landscapes on AWS, including AWS GovCloud
• Experience supporting SAP in a public sector orFedRAMP/GovRAMP-regulated environment
• Experience with SAP integration to OpenText document management
• Experience with SAP BW on HANA, SAP CRM, GRC/Access Control, orEnterprise Portal

Skills

Skill	Required	Required Experience	Candidate Experience	Last Used
SAP HANA database administration: install, configure, patch, tune, backup and recovery, and System Replication across production and non-production	Required	5		Years
SAP NetWeaver Basis administration on ABAP and Java stacks: transports, kernel and SPS updates, system copies, performance troubleshooting	Required	8		Years
Enterprise SAP operations at scale: 24x7 on-call/duty manager rotation, daily system checks, incident and problem management in Solution Manager	Required	5		Years
SAP OS/DB migration, upgrade, or S/4HANA conversion work, including migration of SAP landscapes to cloud hosting such as SAP RISE or SAP NS2	Desired	3		Years
SAP landscape administration on AWS or comparable public cloud, including networking, storage, and backup integration	Desired	2		Years

 

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