Senior Principal System Administrator(SAP BASIS,15+ Years,Bangalore)

Overview

The SAP Basis Administrator ensures the performance, availability, security and reliability of enterprise-critical SAP systems across a global environment, supporting finance, order management, inventory, procurement, shipping and engineering functions.

What you'll do

• Execute SAP infrastructure and architecture roadmaps, ensuring system stability, availability and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Install, configure, patch, maintain and refresh SAP applications and database systems.
• Monitor system performance, analyze resource utilization, perform tuning and capacity management, and proactively identify potential issues.
• Handle service management tickets, troubleshoot system issues, perform health checks and support break/fix activities.
• Partner with data center, network, storage, security and database teams to deliver reliable and secure SAP solutions.
• Support SAP infrastructure design and initiatives involving high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Identify opportunities to automate routine activities, improve operational efficiency and enhance existing processes.
• Develop and maintain technical specifications, system architecture diagrams, design documents, requirements and test scripts.
• Support SAP Digital Technology (DT) teams during critical system outages, planned maintenance and operational activities.
• Participate in on-call rotations, work in US hours as required, and provide weekend support when necessary.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience working in an SAP Basis administration role.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, including networking, servers, storage, databases and application architecture.
• Hands-on experience administering SAP ECC, BW, PI, Solution Manager and SAP HANA systems.
• Knowledge of system architecture, performance monitoring, tuning and capacity management methodologies and tools.
• Experience in scripting using Bash, Python or similar scripting languages.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at different organizational levels, including leadership.
• Ability to work in a global support environment, including US working hours, on-call rotations and occasional weekend support.
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or a related field, along with relevant experience; a master's or advanced degree in a related field may be considered with the applicable level of relevant experience; candidates without a degree may qualify with equivalent relevant professional experience, subject to company policy and applicable requirements.

Nice to have

• Extensive hands-on experience in SAP BASIS administration and technical operations across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/BW4HANA, SAP PI/PO, SAP Solution Manager, SAP SRM, SAP SCM/APO, SAP Content Server, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Data Services and Redwood scheduling.
• Experience with SAP installations, upgrades, support package implementations, kernel upgrades, system conversions, migrations, system copies, client copies, system refreshes and landscape maintenance.
• Experience leading SAP upgrade, migration and transformation programs.
• Strong administration experience with SAP HANA, Oracle and SAP Sybase ASE databases, including backup/recovery, performance tuning and database maintenance.
• Experience designing and supporting High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity solutions.
• Perform SAP HANA database administration, backup/recovery, performance tuning and HANA System Replication (HSR).
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems in SAP environments.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other enterprise cloud environments.
• Experience with RISE with SAP transformation and migration initiatives, including system migration, landscape optimization and cloud adoption.
• Experience managing SAP transport landscapes, change management processes and SAP ChaRM (Change Request Management).
• Experience working in global delivery and support models, including coordination with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple geographies.
• Experience supporting SAP identity integration with Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos and other enterprise authentication mechanisms.
• Experience developing automation scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell or other scripting languages to streamline SAP BASIS operations.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (IN-KA-BENGALURU-NORTHGATE, Yelahanka Hobli).
• Work mode: Hybrid, with the ratio of onsite time determined in partnership with your leader.
• Background check required; drug screen applies to Operations positions.