SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator

This is a remote position. SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator Job Details Employment Type: Contract Work Mode: Remote Location: Offshore Total Experience Required: 5 to 8 years Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated SAP Basis system administration and HANA database management experience Mandatory Certification: SAP Certified Technology Associate

• System Administration (SAP Net. Weaver or S/4HANA) or SAP Certified Technology Associate
• SAP HANA Job Summary We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis / HANA Database Administrator to oversee the stability, performance, and security of our enterprise infrastructure. The ideal candidate will manage cross-environment landscape architectures, optimize HANA in-memory performance parameters, govern system sizing, and lead patch upgrades to ensure absolute platform availability.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and optimize multi-tier SAP landscape architectures , supervising installation, client copies, system refreshes, and transport management system (TMS) configurations. Manage and fine-tune SAP HANA databases , auditing memory allocations, row/column store distribution, CPU utilisation, and delta merge execution frequencies.

Orchestrate backup and disaster recovery frameworks , configuring high availability (HA) nodes, SAP HANA system replication (HSR), and bare-metal restore protocols. Execute system maintenance tasks , applying Support Packages, SAP Notes, Kernel upgrades, and executing core component version upgrades using Software Update Manager (SUM).

Govern platform security policies , defining system parameters, managing cryptography layers, tracking audit logs, and configuring complex user authorization structures. Conduct rigorous workload analysis and system tuning , diagnosing bottlenecks using SAP Solution Manager , HANA Cockpit, DB02, and ST03N transaction monitors.

Support cloud infrastructure connectivity , configuring network parameters, RFC destinations, web dispatcher routing, and cloud-to-on-premise data connections.

Requirements

5 to 8 years of core enterprise IT infrastructure engineering experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining SAP Basis landscapes. Strong technical mastery of SAP Net. Weaver architecture, Linux operating systems (SUSE/RHEL), SAP HANA Studio/Cockpit management, and SQL scripting. Deep structural understanding of system memory limits, memory dump troubleshooting, security encryption, and transport transport paths.

Mandatory certification: SAP Certified Technology Associate

• System Administration OR SAP Certified Technology Associate
• SAP HANA.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior cloud migration infrastructure experience ( AWS , Azure , or GCP cloud hosting configurations). Experience implementing automated Basis maintenance workflows or managing system telemetry alerts within large scale, multi-region database landscapes.