SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator

Job Description

This is a remote position.

SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator

Job Details

• Employment Type: Contract
• Work Mode: Remote
• Location: Offshore
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 8 years
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated SAP Basis system administration and HANA database management experience
• Mandatory Certification: SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP NetWeaver or S/4HANA) or SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator to oversee the stability, performance, and security of our enterprise infrastructure. The ideal candidate will manage cross-environment landscape architectures, optimize HANA in-memory performance parameters, govern system sizing, and lead patch upgrades to ensure absolute platform availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize multi-tier SAP landscape architectures, supervising installation, client copies, system refreshes, and transport management system (TMS) configurations.
• Manage and fine-tune SAP HANA databases, auditing memory allocations, row/column store distribution, CPU utilisation, and delta merge execution frequencies.
• Orchestrate backup and disaster recovery frameworks, configuring high availability (HA) nodes, SAP HANA system replication (HSR), and bare-metal restore protocols.
• Execute system maintenance tasks, applying Support Packages, SAP Notes, Kernel upgrades, and executing core component version upgrades using Software Update Manager (SUM).
• Govern platform security policies, defining system parameters, managing cryptography layers, tracking audit logs, and configuring complex user authorization structures.
• Conduct rigorous workload analysis and system tuning, diagnosing bottlenecks using , HANA Cockpit, DB02, and ST03N transaction monitors.
• Support cloud infrastructure connectivity, configuring network parameters, RFC destinations, web dispatcher routing, and cloud-to-on-premise data connections.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of core enterprise IT infrastructure engineering experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining SAP Basis landscapes.
• Strong technical mastery of SAP NetWeaver architecture, Linux operating systems (SUSE/RHEL), SAP HANA Studio/Cockpit management, and SQL scripting.
• Deep structural understanding of system memory limits, memory dump troubleshooting, security encryption, and transport transport paths.
• Mandatory certification: OR SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior cloud migration infrastructure experience (, , or GCP cloud hosting configurations).
• Experience implementing automated Basis maintenance workflows or managing system telemetry alerts within large scale, multi-region database landscapes.

Requirements

Requirements 4+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce Administration and configuration. Strong expertise in declarative automation tools, particularly Salesforce Flows and complex validation logic. Deep technical understanding of the Salesforce security model, data architecture, and sharing settings. Hands-on experience managing data loads, migrations, and quality controls using Data Loader. Salesforce Certified Administrator (Administrator credential) mandatory. Preferred Qualifications Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator or Platform App Builder certification. Experience with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Lightning Experience migrations in remote, distributed enterprise environments.