SAP Basis Administrator

About the role

The SAP Basis Administrator will manage and optimise the company's SAP S/4HANA landscape and related IT infrastructure. The role provides regional IT support across multiple sites, ensuring system availability, security, performance and business continuity.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, monitor and maintain SAP development, QA, production and disaster‑recovery systems.
• Ensure optimal SAP performance, conduct health monitoring, capacity planning and maintain high availability.
• Execute SAP kernel upgrades, patches, support package implementations and manage transports and system refreshes.
• Administer SAP users, roles, authorisations and security controls.
• Maintain SAP backup integrity, restore readiness and disaster‑recovery capabilities.
• Support SAP HANA database administration, performance monitoring and basic troubleshooting.
• Manage SAP infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure, including virtual machines, storage and network dependencies.
• Handle SAP and IT incidents, perform root‑cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
• Coordinate with SAP support, cloud vendors and business stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• Relevant SAP certification (e.g., SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP S/4HANA System Administration).
• 3–5 years of hands‑on SAP Basis administration experience.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP ECC environments.
• Familiarity with cloud‑hosted SAP solutions is preferred.

Required skills

• SAP Basis administration
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP ECC
• SAP HANA database
• Microsoft Azure (VM, storage, networking)
• SAP kernel upgrades and patching
• Transport management
• Backup and disaster‑recovery procedures
• Performance monitoring and capacity planning
• User, role and security administration
• Incident and problem management