Job Title: SAP BASIS Specialist

Location: 100% Remote (Preferred Hybrid Capability)
Duration: 9 Months

Work Arrangement:

This position is primarily remote. However, the hiring manager prefers candidates who can attend onsite collaboration every Tuesday. Candidates considered for hybrid support must reside within a 2-hour drive (100-mile radius) of Sacramento, CA. Hybrid capability will be considered secondary after evaluation of mandatory technical requirements.

Job Description

Scope of Work

We are seeking an experienced SAP BASIS Specialist to provide technical and architecture design support for enterprise SAP solutions. The consultant will support a complex SAP ecosystem and will be responsible for administration, configuration, upgrades, patching, system refreshes, and troubleshooting.

The role requires collaboration with multiple technical teams to ensure a stable, scalable, and highly available SAP enterprise environment.

Supported SAP Landscape

The environment includes:

• SAP ECC

• SAP CRM

• SAP BW / BI

• SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ)

• SAP Process Orchestration (PO)

• SAP Web Dispatcher

• SAP Fiori

• SAP C/4HANA

• SAP S/4HANA

• SAP Ariba

• SAP BTP

• SAP SuccessFactors

• SAP BDC

• SAP SAC (Analytics Cloud)

• SAP Datasphere

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 on-call and after-hours support as required.

• Lead primary SAP BASIS administration for enterprise applications.

• Provide secondary administration support for additional enterprise systems.

• Troubleshoot and resolve system outages, performance issues, and incidents.

• Serve as primary escalation point for SAP platform issues.

• Coordinate system installations, upgrades, patches, backups, and restores.

• Perform OS, database, application, and client tool patching and migrations.

• Test patches in non-production environments before deployment.

• Ensure systems are configured according to enterprise standards.

• Maintain application availability in accordance with SLAs.

• Perform system sizing and capacity planning.

• Act as vendor liaison for bug fixes, licensing, and maintenance.

• Provide status reports and updates to management.

• Support business users and internal teams with troubleshooting.

• Install new application releases and version upgrades.

• Monitor and troubleshoot hardware and software related to SAP platforms.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation and administration procedures.

• Manage application security and user administration.

• Provide desktop support and user training when required.

• Evaluate software and hardware solutions and provide recommendations.

• Automate administrative processes where possible.

• Coordinate with security, networking, operations, and development teams.

• Configure and monitor batch jobs and scripts.

• Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.

• Maintain fault tolerance and DR strategies for SAP systems.

Mandatory Requirements

• 5+ years of SAP BASIS experience supporting SAP ABAP and JAVA systems.

• 3+ years of experience supporting the following SAP technologies:

  • S/4HANA

  • C/4HANA

  • SAP SuccessFactors

  • SAP BTP (Cloud Connector, Cloud Integration, Fiori, UI5, SAP HANA)

• Experience supporting at least two major SAP implementations or upgrade projects, including:

  • S/4HANA migration

  • Selective Data Transition

  • SAP RISE support

• Must be able to provide remote on-call support outside regular business hours, including nights and weekends.

Required Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum 5 years of progressive IT experience administering enterprise applications including SAP BASIS.

• Hands-on experience with SAP and non-SAP enterprise systems administration, including:

  • Installation

  • Configuration

  • Patching

  • Troubleshooting

  • Documentation

  • System coordination

• Experience with SAP system design, configuration, and functionality.

• Experience with system development lifecycle, data modeling, and complex issue resolution.

• Experience working with data maintenance and retrieval.

• Experience with operating systems:

  • UNIX

  • Linux

  • Windows

  • AIX

Required SAP Technical Experience

Candidates must have hands-on experience with:

• SAP ECC6

• SAP S/4HANA

• SAP BW / BI

• SAP CRM

• SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ)

• SAP Process Orchestration (PO)

• SAP BPC

• SAP HANA

• SAP C/4HANA

• SAP BTP

• SAP SuccessFactors

• SAP Cloud Connector

• SAP Fiori / Gateway

• SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

• SAP BDC

• SAP Datasphere

• SAP Solution Manager

Additional Requirements

• Ability to support hybrid work every Tuesday onsite for candidates within 100 miles of Sacramento, CA.

• Current SAP certifications related to the supported systems are required.

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Strong knowledge of SAP cloud offerings and hyperscaler environments.

• Expert use of SAP Solution Manager for monitoring and documentation.

• Experience with SAP system refresh processes including:

  • Native SAP tools

  • LAMA

  • SAP PCA

• Experience administering NetWeaver Java solutions, including:

  • NWDI

  • EP 7.0

  • Adobe Document Services

  • PO

  • Web Dispatcher

  • SLD

• Experience with SAP Change Management:

  • CTS+

  • Non-ABAP and cloud solution transport processes

• SAP administration experience in:

  • DB2 / AIX environments

  • RHEL environments