– SAP Basis Consultant (ABAP Background) Location: Remote

Experience: 10+ Years

Employment Type: Contractual Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis Consultant with a robust ABAP administration background to manage and support enterprise SAP landscapes. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in administering traditional SAP ABAP systems, including SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments. This role is focused on system administration, transport management, performance optimization, installations, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and ensuring the stability, availability, and security of SAP systems.

Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain SAP ABAP-based systems, including SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.

Perform SAP kernel upgrades, Support Package Stack (SPS) implementations, and system refresh activities.

Execute homogeneous and heterogeneous system copies and migrations.

Manage SAP Transport Management System (TMS) and coordinate transports across Development, QA, and Production environments.

Monitor and optimize SAP system performance using SAP administration tools and transactions such as ST03N, ST04, SM50, SM66, SM21, ST22, DBACOCKPIT, and RZ20.

Administer SAP users, roles, authorizations, profiles, and client management activities.

Analyze and resolve system issues related to work processes, update failures, background jobs, spool management, RFC connectivity, and system availability.

Perform SAP system health checks, capacity planning, and proactive performance tuning.

Administer SAP HANA databases, including backup, recovery, monitoring, and database performance optimization.

Plan and execute SAP installations, upgrades, Unicode conversions, and release migrations.

Implement backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity procedures.





Coordinate with ABAP developers during code deployments and production releases.

Provide L2/L3 production support, root cause analysis, and incident resolution.

Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and system administration records.

Required

Skills

10+ years of hands-on SAP Basis Administration experience.

Strong experience administering SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA ABAP environments.

In-depth knowledge of SAP NetWeaver ABAP architecture and administration.

Strong expertise in SAP Transport Management System (TMS) and change management.

Experience with SAP HANA database administration.

Hands-on experience with SAP system installations, upgrades, kernel patching, and migrations.

Strong troubleshooting skills across SAP application, database, and operating system layers.

Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.

Knowledge of SAP monitoring and performance analysis tools.

Familiarity with backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.

Basic scripting knowledge (Shell, PowerShell, or Python) is an advantage.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred

Qualifications

SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP System Administration (or equivalent SAP Basis certification).

Experience supporting large-scale enterprise SAP landscapes.

Exposure to SAP Solution Manager, SAP Focused Run, or SAP Cloud ALM.

Familiarity with cloud-hosted SAP environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus.

Key Competencies

Strong understanding of SAP ABAP system architecture.

Expertise in SAP transport and release management.

Performance tuning and system optimization.

Production support and incident management.

Technical documentation and process compliance.

Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced project environment.

📌 SAP Basis Consultant (ABAP Background) (India)
🏢 NAKS Digital Consulting
📍 India