SAP Basis Administrator at ONIBEX

This is a remote position.

This position is a member of the Information Services IS Operations team at Onibex and reports to the Technical Applications and Services Manager.  Allied uses SAP to run its business, having implemented SAP ECC 6.0, encompassing the modules SD, MM, LE, FICO, Data Services, BW on HANA, BOBJ, SAP Portal, PI and PO/AEX. 

The SAP Basis Administrator handles the SAP software installation, upgrades via Enhancement Packs, applying Support Packs, installation of add-on software components, SAP profile parameter changes, workload analysis, system error analysis and establishing standard Basis background jobs and system health checks and monitoring.  

The SAP Basis Administrator will collaborate with IS and Business Leads to define detailed customer requirements and system interfaces and develop solutions to satisfy the business requirements. Other responsibilities include working on various ongoing projects in the client environment to understand resource needs and plan for Basis resource utilization. This person also works with the various teams interfacing with Basis (SAP Security, Database, Operating System, Network, and Hardware) to evaluate the impact of how making changes in one area could impact the overall SAP landscape.

Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintains multi-landscape environment which include SAP ERP, PO/AEX, Portal, Business objects, BW on Hana and SAP Solution Manager.
  
• Maintaining a sound production environment while at the same time participating in multiple projects with varying degrees of complexity.
  
• Develop, document, and maintain standard operating procedures, system error detection procedures, database reorganization and SAP background job scheduling.
  
• Experience with SAP, non-SAP interfaces using SAP PO/AEX (formerly PI or XI) single stack.
  
• Develop and maintain SAP PO/AEX adapters including JDBC, SOAP, RFC, IDoc, FTP.
  
• Strong experience on SAP Integrations. Including interfaces for Non-SAP & SAP applications (Synchronous and Asynchronous Processing). SAP PO/AEX (formerly PI or XI) adapters including JDBC, SOAP, REST, RFC, IDOCs, FTP, WSDL, Web Services, OData and Cloud.
  
• Manage the migration of transports, upgrades, and system restores which include Homogeneous System Copies Heterogeneous System Copies.
  
• Provide leadership in creating a roadmap for SAP maintenance and upgrades. 
  
• Proactively monitors the performance of SAP systems components, platform integrations and corresponding infrastructure components. Recommending improvements and enhanced with performance tuning.
  
• Responsible for maintaining and implementing SAP audit controls.
  
• Respond rapidly to system performance and reliability incidents to return system to normal performance as soon as possible.
  
• Recommend and implement tuning and configuration changes as needed to improve the performance and reliability of the overall system landscape.
  
• Liaise with outside service providers as needed to identify performance or reliability issues.  Determine and implement proper remedial actions.
  
• Assist other team members via knowledge transfer to always ensure proper coverage for responsibilities.
  
• Provide prompt and consistent updates to management regarding the performance within the SAP system landscape
  
• Foster and maintain good relationships with customers and IS colleagues to meet expected customer service levels.
  
• Support the planning and execution of disaster recovery processes for the system landscape.
  
• Administer SAP security for role creation, role assignments, and maintenance.
  

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology discipline, or equivalent work experience
  
• Has 8+ years of hands-on experience with SAP Basis Administration
  
• Strong experience in ECC, S/4HANA, HANA DB, MS SQL DB, BW, Solution Manager, BOBJ, Data Services, and Fiori
  
• Has working experience with BW on Hana running under a Linux environment
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of technology, techniques and methodologies in a tiered client server environment and web-based environment
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP technical architecture with hands-on experience
  
• Experience mentoring and coordinating highly technical employees
  
• Experience across all SAP Basis disciplines: Daily Operations, Apply SAP Notes, Support Pack Management, ABAP and Java
  
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills, ability to work on cross-functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks
  
• A commitment to Allied core values of safety, integrity, process improvement, and customer satisfaction
  
• Capability to perform as a Project Manager, and multi-task and manage multiple priorities with attention to detail
  
• Deep problem-solving and analytical skills with excellent interpersonal and communications skills
  

Benefits

• Constant learning using the latest SAP technologies.
  
• Be part of a highly skilled team.
  
• Remote job. 
  
• Competitive salary.