SAP Basis and Infrastructure architect

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