We are hiring for Senior SAP Basis SME to support our client
Company Name: - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Title: Senior SAP Basis SME
Location: Remote
Citizenship: US Person
Salary Range : $135K - $170K
Position Summary
The Senior SAP Basis SME is responsible for the installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimization of SAP system landscapes across on-premise and cloud environments. This role serves as the technical escalation point for Basis-related incidents and works closely with functional teams, security, and infrastructure to ensure system availability, performance, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain SAP system landscapes including S/4HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, Solution Manager, and SAP HANA
- databases across development, quality, and production environments.
- Perform system installations, upgrades, kernel patches, support pack stacks (SPS), and SAP Note implementations with minimal
- downtime.
- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, and third-party monitoring tools;
- proactively resolve bottlenecks.
- Manage SAP HANA database administration including backup/recovery, memory management, delta merges, and system
- replication (HSR).
- Configure and maintain SAP transport management system (STMS), RFC connections, and background job scheduling.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Basis-related production issues; serve as Tier 3 escalation point.
- Implement and manage SAP security configurations including user administration, role assignments, SSO, and audit log reviews.
- Plan and execute system refreshes, client copies, and landscape migrations including cloud migrations to SAP BTP, AWS, or Azure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support project implementations, go-lives, and hypercare activities.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation for operational procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Basis administration across complex, multi-system landscapes.
- Deep expertise in SAP HANA database administration, including HSR, backup strategies, and performance tuning.
- Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA installations, migrations, and system conversions.
- Strong knowledge of SAP transport management, kernel updates, and support pack application.
- Experience managing SAP environments on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or SAP BTP).
- Solid understanding of OS-level administration (Linux/RHEL preferred, Windows Server).
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP Certified Technology Associate System Administration (SAP HANA) or equivalent.
- Experience with SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Landscape Management (LaMa), or SAP Business Technology Platform.
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or SAP-native scripting.
- Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and experience within structured change management processes.
- Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code for SAP environments.
If you are available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP on / If you do respond via e-mail ( ) please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP with your updated resume.
Established in 2003, JTSi is a Professional IT & Engineering Services provider with years of documented experience in the Information Technology and Engineering services field. JTSi has a proven track record for successfully delivering mission critical Professional services to the Government and the industry. JTSi SAP team delivers solutions to its clients by clearly understanding their core business problems. We deliver quality services at equitable rates and focus on constant improvement in all areas of our operation, austerely complying to the customer s desire. We view our-selves more as a business partner than a mere provider of consulting services. At JTSi customer is always first and partnering is our means to customer satisfaction. We do what we say!
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