About the Opportunity This role supports highly available SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA landscapes for an enterprise operating in a regulated environment. You will lead end-to-end administration across SAP HANA, SAP Basis, connectivity to SAP BTP services, and analytics integrations, while driving performance, reliability, security hardening, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Provide operations support for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA: administration, monitoring, maintenance, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
Perform HANA installation and revision upgrades; backup and recovery; system replication; tenant DB management; user/role administration; security hardening; system copy/refresh using HDB methods.
Administer SAP NetWeaver ABAP/S/4HANA: kernel and support package maintenance, transport management, client administration, background jobs, RFC connections, spool, and application availability checks.
Manage SAP Cloud Connector: subaccount configuration, high availability, certificates and trust, access control mappings, and connectivity to SAP BTP from on prem/private cloud systems.
Support SAP Analytics Cloud connectivity to HANA and S/4HANA: live/import connections, agent connectivity, authentication, certificates, and end to end troubleshooting.
Configure, operate, and troubleshoot HANA SDI/SDA: Data Provisioning Agent install/upgrade, remote sources, flowgraphs, replication tasks/subscriptions/adapters, and replication monitoring.
Diagnose SDI latency, task failures, connectivity and certificate issues, and data consistency; coordinate cross functionally through resolution.
Implement and maintain SSL/TLS certificates: requests, deployment, renewals, trust stores, and secure communication troubleshooting.
Create and maintain runbooks, recovery procedures, architecture diagrams, and operations documentation; participate in incident response, change management, DR exercises, capacity planning, and on call support.
Required Qualifications
10 years of hands-on SAP HANA database administration and SAP Basis support.
Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA operations and NetWeaver ABAP administration.
Hands-on expertise with HANA install/upgrade, backup/restore, system replication, tenant/user/role admin, performance tuning, and security hardening.
Proficiency with SAP Cloud Connector setup, HA, certificates/trust, and access control; proven SAP Analytics Cloud connectivity troubleshooting.
Experience with HANA SDI/SDA and Data Provisioning Agent (remote sources, flowgraphs, replication tasks, monitoring, and issue resolution).
Solid understanding of network infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, DNS, proxies, DMZs, private connectivity) and secure communications (SSL/TLS lifecycle).
Ability to work independently in regulated environments, drive issues to resolution, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, and application teams.
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with SAP HANA Cockpit, HANA Studio or Database Explorer, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run for technical monitoring and alerting.
Relevant SAP certifications (HANA, Basis, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Analytics Cloud).
Master s degree.
Work Environment
Remote, collaborative environment with cross-functional teams; participation in on-call support as required.