The Opportunity
As a SAP BASIS Manager, you will be at the forefront of managing and optimizing our SAP BASIS infrastructure and operations. This role offers you the chance to lead the administration, maintenance, and performance tuning of our SAP systems, ensuring stability, security, and high availability.
You will have the opportunity to work closely with functional teams, IT, and business stakeholders to enhance SAP system landscapes, implement best practices, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Your expertise will be essential in addressing complex technical issues, managing system upgrades, patches, and ensuring compliance with IT policies and regulatory requirements.
In this position, you will also play a key role in mentoring and leading a team of BASIS administrators, fostering a cooperative environment that encourages knowledge sharing, skill development, and innovation. You will be part of a agile team that values technical excellence and is committed to delivering exceptional SAP services to support business objectives.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Performance monitoring and tuning, issue diagnosis, rootcause analysis, and resolution.
- SAP administration on UNIX & Windows environments.
- System copy/refresh planning and execution.
- Administration of ABAP + Java dualstack systems.
- Addon installation, Support Pack updates, and postimplementation troubleshooting.
- Kernel upgrades and patching.
- Client copies, export/import operations.
- TMS administration, transport configuration, and troubleshooting transport errors.
- SAP system monitoring, log analysis, workload analysis,
and earlywatch checks.
- SAP parameter optimization, operation mode setup, logon group configuration.
- SAP authorization knowledge: role analysis, creation, and troubleshooting access issues.
- Spool administration and troubleshooting print/spool issues.
- OSS Note implementation and correction deployments.
- Experience with Single SignOn, certificates, SNC, Web Dispatcher routing & load balancing.
- Strong experience managing SAP on public and private clouds.
- Handson experience working with Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience in SAP user provisioning, role assignments, and troubleshooting authorization conflicts.
- Understanding of OS/DB migration and heterogeneous migration concepts.
- Familiarity with SAP connectivity components such as Gateway, Web Dispatcher, RFCs, Cloud Connector, etc.
Skills and attributes for success
- Should have 9 to 10 years of experience in the SAP Basis domain with strong leadership responsibilities.
- Solid handson experience in SAP system administration including installation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of SAP architecture, transport management (CTS, CTS+), kernel upgrades, client strategies,
and system refresh processes.
- Expertise in SAP HANA administration (performance tuning, monitoring, backup/recovery, memory optimization, and troubleshooting).
- Experience managing SAP landscapes such as S/4HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, PO/PI, Fiori, Solution Manager, Web Dispatcher, and Gateway.
- Strong knowledge of SAP BTP, integration services, and administration fundamentals.
- Experience managing RISE with SAP environments and cloud operational activities.
- Strong documentation skills ensuring structured, compliant, and auditready system documentation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholdermanagement skills with experience working with senior leadership.
- Indepth expertise in Solution Manager functionalities including CHARM, EWA, Monitoring, System Recommendations, and Change Control Management.
- Experience using Signavio for business process modeling and process governance.
- Experience with LeanIX for enterprise architecture management, application portfolio mapping, and landscape documentation.
- Manage SAP High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.
- Optimize HANA database performance, backup, and restore strategies.
- Knowledge of Linux, Windows, and cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Familiarity with SAP security, patching, and encryption methodologies.
- Performance Optimization & System Security:
- Analyse and improve SAP system performance, load balancing, and scalability.
- Optimize memory management, SAP buffers, work processes, and background jobs.
📌 SAP BASIS-Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 EY
📍 Bengaluru