Intel Senior SAP Basis HANA Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

879505104

Roles and Responsibility -

• You will be part of Basis Engineering Team and will have complete ownership of one or multiple SAP systems like S/4 HANA, ECC, Business Objects, Information Steward, Data Services, SLT, BI, IBP Cloud, SCM etc.
• You will ensure an efficient planning, provisioning, installation/configuration, maintenance, and/or operations of the owned system (applications and databases).
• You will have to ensure that your systems remain healthy and stable 24x7 while also working proactively to identify and avoid potential performance bottlenecks.
• Partner with infrastructure teams for maintenance and upkeep of SAP servers.
• You will also partner with several stakeholders in our global workplace setting, will gather and assess their technical requirements from Technical and Infrastructure aspect and map them with system capabilities.
• You will convert their requirements into technical specs and recommend optimal Platform solutions for SAP Projects while working closely with Platform Architects.
• You will also have responsibility to perform proof-of-concepts and pilots on several upcoming cutting-edge design projects and subsequently document the findings and assessment.
• You will establish process for new capabilities and create troubleshooting guides.
• You will be providing Level 3 On-call support for SAP Basis and HANA/SQL Server databases during India hours while adhering to SLAs and OLAs.
• As part of ownership, you will be responsible for taking periodic planned maintenance downtimes during stipulated window on your systems and ensure a smooth execution of such activities through proactive planning and preparations.
• You will be expected to independently perform major Software (Version, EHP, Support Pack), Hardware (OS/DB) and Kernel upgrades on a complex landscape comprising of Clusters and High Availability for servers and storage.
• Regular interaction and partnership with vendors to deep dive for new capability explore projects and during investigation and troubleshooting of issues and problems.
• Responsibility to keep the environment secure and compliant by applying periodic security patches and upgrades performed at application, database and operating system levels.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related discipline.
• SAP Basis and HANA database administration experience of minimum 7+ years (Implementation and support).
• Knowledge of architecture of an SAP System, Application Server (AS) ABAP and Application Server (AS) Java.
• Experience with SAP S4, ERP, SCM, CRM, SRM, SAP Solution Manager, MDG, PO/PI/XI, BO/BI, IS/DS, SLT, Fiori and S/4 HANA solutions.
• Knowledge of SAP Solution Manager and SAP Cloud ALM.
• Deep Knowledge of communication protocols like RFC, ODATA and Authentication protocols like SSO, SNC, SSL, SAML, LDAP etc.
• Experience of Windows Server 2022, MS SQL server database administration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Cluster and High Availability concepts.
• Database administration, optimization and migration (HANA, MSSQL).
• Software maintenance, monitoring, configuring log/trace files.
• Installing Enhancement packs and support packages.
• Knowledge of Data Center network and storage fundamentals.
• Fast learner, self-motivated and ability to influence across organizations, proven collaboration skills, comfortable working with a very high degree of ambiguity, ability to make quick and informed decisions to handle crisis situations.
• Ability to work well in cross-geo teams and working with global customers.
• Understanding of running SAP on Azure and AWS will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge on ITIL Service Management and DevOps tools (Service Now, JIRA) will be considered a plus.
• Automation skills on PowerShell, Python, RPA tools etc. will be a significant plus.
• Should be self-driven, disciplined and customer oriented and should have passion for quality and attention to details.