SAP Basis and Infrastructure architect
Phone/Skype Hire.
Location: Remote
Duration: 12+ months
Responsibilities
- Participates with all SCEIS technical and functional teams to develop implementation and maintenance strategies, processes, procedures and best practices for SAP system solutions.
- Assist with defining hardware specifications and the current SCEIS landscape as required for additional functionality being implemented.
- Assist with creation of a high-level implementation roadmap for the above solutions.
- assist with development of test plans to validate the solutions and components once implemented.
- effectively leveraging the latest capabilities of SAP components to assist with solution development.
- SAP Basis Administration in a Windows Server 2012-2025 and SQL 2014-2019 environments.
- Working knowledge of SAP in an HP infrastructure 64-bit hardware environment
- Working knowledge of virtualization using VMWARE.
- SAP Basis administration and technical core competencies tasks including SAP software installation, upgrade, applying Support Packages, and installation of add-on software components.
- SAP profile parameter changes, workload analysis, system error analysis and establishment of standard Basis background jobs and system health checks and monitoring
- Impact analysis of new SAP releases to current system landscape environments
- Design of solutions and assistance to project and production support teams in deploying the solution.
- Analysis of system performance, database performance, system health checks and implementation of tuning improvements
- Establishment of OSS and EarlyWatch connections where appropriate
- Participation in multi-landscape environments through client copies, system refreshes, and transport management.
- Responsibility for optimal disk layout, file system structures, OS tuning/performance improvements and troubleshooting.
- Technical consulting and mentoring application development, functional, global rollout, integration and change release management teams, and to fellow Basis Administrators.
- Technical Leadership and participation in technical projects across multiple teams.
- Investigation and engineering of new technologies and solutions from SAP and associated software vendors.
- Practical experience interfacing to 3rd party technologies such as Vertex, BSI, Adobe Forms, Doc Builder, Nakisa, Business Objects and other common SAP bolt-ons
Training
- Formally provide process and technical knowledge transfer via peer coaching, written documentation and classroom instruction for all Basis work.
General
- Provide effective and timely oral and written communications to management, peers and users.
- Identification and escalation of issues and risks to management in a timely manner.
Skills Needed
- 10+ Years of Experience with ABAP solution architecting
- 10+ Years of Experience with ABAP/Java software installation and configuration
- 10+ years of practical upgrade, enhancement pack, OSS notes, support packs and troubleshooting
- 5+ Years of Experience with SAP NetWeaver releases
- 5+ Years of Experience with SAP in the Public Sector
- Public Sector support for ECC 6.0, SRM 7.04, BW7.5, and Fiori Gateway
- SAP upgrade and enhancement pack installation
- SAP architecture and design
- MS Office tools (e.g. Word, Excel, VISIO, Project)
- MS Server 2012-2025
- MS SQL database 2014-2019
- Project Management experience
Required Education/Certifications:
Bachelors in IT, Business or equivalent experience