SAP BASIS
NTT DATA North America
Key Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day SAP Basis administration and operational support across ECC, S/4HANA, and related SAP systems.
- Support RISE with SAP / S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition environments and coordinate activities with SAP ECS/RISE teams.
- Manage and monitor SAP system availability, performance, background jobs, work processes, dumps, locks, RFCs, and interfaces.
- Perform system start/stop, client administration, transport management, and system refresh/copy activities.
- Support SAP kernel upgrades, Support Package/Stack upgrades, SPS updates, and SAP Notes implementation.
- Perform SAP HANA administration activities, including monitoring, performance analysis, backup coordination, and troubleshooting.
- Coordinate infrastructure-level activities such as OS, database, backup, restore, patching, and maintenance with SAP RISE/ECS teams.
- Raise and manage SAP support cases/service requests, including follow-up with SAP until resolution.
- Support planned maintenance, upgrades, migrations, and Production cutover activities.
- Perform proactive system monitoring, capacity/performance analysis, and issue resolution.
- Support High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity activities.
- Work with functional, development, security, integration, and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot SAP issues.
- Follow change, incident, and problem management processes and maintain operational documentation/SOPs.
- Provide support for critical Production incidents and participate in on-call/weekend activities where required.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP Basis Administration.
- Experience supporting SAP ECC and S/4HANA landscapes.
- Hands-on knowledge of RISE with SAP / SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
- Good understanding of the shared responsibility model between customer/partner and SAP ECS in a RISE landscape.
- Strong knowledge of SAP HANA Database administration and monitoring.
- Experience with SAP Solution Manager and/or SAP Cloud ALM.
- Experience with SAP system upgrades, kernel upgrades, patching, migrations, and system refreshes.
- Strong understanding of TMS, RFC, SAP Notes, background jobs, spool, dumps, locks, and performance monitoring.
- Experience in coordinating SAP-managed cloud activities through SAP for Me / service requests and support cases.
- Good understanding of HA/DR, backup/recovery, security, SSL certificates, and connectivity.
- Knowledge of hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud would be an advantage.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Qualifications
- SAP Basis/S/4HANA or RISE-related certification.
- Experience with SAP BTP connectivity and Cloud Connector.
- Experience in SAP migrations from on-premise environments to RISE with SAP.
- Knowledge of ITIL-based Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.
- Experience working in large global SAP landscapes and Production support environments.