We are seeking a Senior SAP Basis Technical Consultant for a 6-month contract role, supporting a large, complex, and business-critical SAP landscape across multiple business units. This hands-on position is responsible for SAP Basis architecture, administration, lifecycle management, and operational support across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will work directly with infrastructure, network, firewall, development, cloud, and operations teams to maintain secure, resilient, and high-performing SAP platforms. This position participates in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule.
Responsibilities
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available SAP infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments; establish technical standards and align platform roadmaps, upgrades, and maintenance with business objectives.
- Provide expert technical guidance to junior and mid-level SAP Basis administrators, promote operational best practices, and coordinate work across internal teams, external partners, and service providers.
- Install, configure, administer, monitor, and maintain SAP systems and supporting technologies, including SAP S/4HANA, NetWeaver, HANA, Oracle, and associated enterprise applications.
- Conduct system health checks, capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance tuning across SAP application, database, operating system, and infrastructure layers.
- Develop, test, and maintain backup, restore, high-availability, disaster-recovery, and failover procedures to support business continuity requirements.
- Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex P1 and P2 incidents, coordinate technical recovery efforts, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive and corrective actions.
- Lead SAP S/4HANA conversions, database migrations to HANA, system refreshes, client copies, landscape transformations, kernel upgrades, Support Package Stack updates, and other lifecycle activities.
- Partner closely with network engineering, firewall, infrastructure, database, development, cloud, and operations teams to coordinate administration, resolve complex issues, and support reliable SAP platform operations.
- Work directly with internal and external operations teams on the administration, support, and lifecycle management of contracted SAP systems.
- Maintain secure SAP technical configurations and support patching, vulnerability remediation, audit readiness, access controls, and compliance with enterprise policies.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures, support records, and knowledge-sharing materials that strengthen team capability and support continuity.
Qualifications
- Required
- 8 or more years of information technology experience, including at least 5 years in a senior SAP Basis and SAP HANA support role.
- Strong hands-on experience administering SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC, SAP HANA, and SAP NetWeaver.
- Experience with installations, upgrades, patching, system refreshes, transport management, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and major incident resolution.
- Working knowledge of Oracle and SAP HANA databases, AIX, Linux, and Windows platforms, and backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery practices.
- Ability to work across multiple technical domains and partner effectively with adjacent teams supporting infrastructure, networking, security, development, cloud connectivity, and vendor-managed environments.
- Ability to participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule.