Full Job Description
Company Name: - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Title: Sr. SAP Basis Consultant
Location: Remote
Salary: $160K
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND TASKS:
The Sr. SAP Basis Consultant is responsible for the installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimization of SAP system landscapes across on-premise and cloud environments. This role serves as the technical escalation point for Basis-related incidents and works closely with functional teams, security, and infrastructure to ensure system availability, performance, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
• dminister and maintain SAP system landscapes including S/4HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, Solution Manager, and SAP HANA
• databases across development, quality, and production environments.
• Perform system installations, upgrades, kernel patches, support pack stacks (SPS), and SAP Note implementations with minimal
• downtime.
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, and third-party monitoring tools;
• proactively resolve bottlenecks.
• Manage SAP HANA database administration including backup/recovery, memory management, delta merges, and system
• replication (HSR).
• Configure and maintain SAP transport management system (STMS), RFC connections, and background job scheduling.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Basis-related production issues; serve as Tier 3 escalation point.
• Implement and manage SAP security configurations including user administration, role assignments, SSO, and audit log reviews.
• Plan and execute system refreshes, client copies, and landscape migrations including cloud migrations to SAP BTP, AWS, or Azure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support project implementations, go-lives, and hypercare activities.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation for operational procedures.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Basis administration across complex, multi-system landscapes.
• Deep expertise in SAP HANA database administration, including HSR, backup strategies, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA installations, migrations, and system conversions.
• Strong knowledge of SAP transport management, kernel updates, and support pack application.
• Experience managing SAP environments on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or SAP BTP).
• Solid understanding of OS-level administration (Linux/RHEL preferred, Windows Server).
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP HANA) or equivalent.
• Experience with SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Landscape Management (LaMa), or SAP Business Technology Platform.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or SAP-native scripting.
• Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and experience within structured change management processes.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code for SAP environments.
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