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SAP Basis Consultant - Full Remote (Contractor)
Category: IT Services
Location: Colombo Western Province Sri Lanka
For an international organization in New York, we are urgently looking for a FULL REMOTE (Senior) SAP Basis Consultant with +4/+8 years of experience to support the installation, maintenance and ongoing operations of multiple SAP systems residing on Windows & Linux / Oracle & HANA platforms in a virtualized environment.
All positions are long-term. Candidates need to be able to work one of the following shifts: First shift should cover 5:00 pm CET to 2:00 am CET and second shift should cover 1:00 am CET to 10:00 am CET. This role is also open for freelancers/contractors, who can work 8 consecutive hours.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Installation of SAP applications, application of patches, upgrades and production support for multiple SAP products (e.g., ECC, BI, SCM, Solution Manager, Enterprise Portal, PI, etc.), maintenance and ongoing operations of multiple SAP systems residing on Windows & Linux / Oracle & HANA platforms in a virtualized environment;
- Perform regular day-today administration and support tasks;
- Monitor, identify and implement Oracle/HANA database performance improvements as required by the SAP systems;
- Work together with the OS and infrastructure administrators to ensure that the environment is adequately tuned for each SAP system and client;
- Assist in the sizing of SAP applications and application components;
- Perform client and system copies, new SAP instance installation support, table reorganizations, connectivity and general maintenance as required by the designated focal points;
- Performs all tasks associated with transport management, including rigorous documentation of all transports applied;
- Configure monitoring and backup solutions. Schedule and monitor backup jobs;
- Perform ad-hoc backups and restores, as required by authorized focal points;
- Monitor and proactively tune all SAP systems and clients to ensure adequate performance as per established parameters;
- Perform SAP Security Administration: creation of new job roles, creation of new user accounts, assignment of job roles to user accounts, etc;
- +4/+8 years of experience of Installation of SAP applications, application of patches, upgrades and production support for multiple SAP products;
- Working experience with latest versions of the following products: ECC, BI, PI, Portal, SolMan, BPC, SRM, CRM, Fiori, TM, EM, GRC, Redwood, IDM, HANA, NWDI and Java administration. 4+ years of experience with Oracle database administration; 2+ years of experience with Linux Operating Systems administration;
- Required working experience on SAP HANA and HANA enterprise DB;
- Good understanding of SAP Security;
- Must have a good understanding of network concepts;
- Nice to have: SAP certifications on administrations on components like – ECC, Netweaver, Solution Manager, Portal, HANA, SCM, SRM;
- Working experience with DB export/import technique and homogeneous/heterogeneous system copy;
- Experience in global SAP implementation programs a plus;
- Able to understand and operate within complex technical environments;
- Solid troubleshooting and problem-solving skills;
- Fluent in English;
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