Senior SAP HANA Database Administrator

Pay Range: $105.00hr - $110.00hr

Job Overview:

Our 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. The candidate will administer and support more than 100 production and non-production SAP HANA databases; provide SAP Basis expertise across all SAP products used; 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 landscape to SAP NS2 (S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition). The candidate should have 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, with comfortable ownership of production availability in a large, heavily integrated public sector landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise across all SAP products used by the organization.
• Serve as the SAP HANA Subject Matter Expert for over 100 production and non-production databases.
• Coordinate and implement technical changes and enhancements to SAP systems.
• Provide operational support as part of the duty manager on-call rotation.
• Perform morning system checks and reporting status.
• Act as the assigned Basis liaison on Solution Manager problem messages.
• Execute SAP HANA System Replication, refreshes, and system copies supporting the migration to SAP NS2.
• Apply SAP HANA revisions, SAP kernel updates, and support package stacks across the development, test, quality, and production landscapes.
• Monitor database performance and capacity, remediating issues before they affect system availability.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in SAP HANA database administration: installation, configuration, patching, tuning, backup and recovery, and System Replication across production and non-production environments.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in SAP NetBeaver Basis administration on ABAP and Java stacks: transports, kernel and Support Package Stack (SPS) updates, system copies, and performance troubleshooting.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in enterprise SAP operations at scale: 24x7 on-call/duty manager rotation, daily system checks, and incident and problem management in Solution Manager.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP OS/DB migration, upgrades, or S/4HANA conversion work, including migration of SAP landscapes to cloud hosting such as SAP RISE or SAP NS2.
• Experience with SAP landscape administration on AWS or comparable public cloud environments, including networking, storage, and backup integration.
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA (e.g., C_HANATEC) or equivalent HANA certification.
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP NetWeaver / OS-DB).
• Experience with SAP RISE, SAP NS2, or S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition migrations.
• 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 or FedRAMP/GovRAMP-regulated environment.
• Experience with SAP integration to OpenText document management.
• Experience with SAP BW on HANA, SAP CRM, GRC/Access Control, or Enterprise Portal.