Senior Infrastructure Engineer - SAP Basis

PATH4 Group; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Job summary

PATH4 Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in SAP Basis to support a major government SAP landscape across Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. This role emphasises S/4HANA transition, migration planning, and robust operation of SAP systems in hybrid, on-site and cloud environments.

You will mentor teams, produce documentation, and engage with architects, project teams, security and APS colleagues to ensure successful modernisation and operational

Qualifications

• Senior SAP Basis administration experience in a large SAP landscape.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA transitions and migrations.
• Current SAP certification in SAP Basis or SAP HANA.
• Experience in regulated environments desirable; cloud or hybrid SAP platforms advantageous.
• Ability to mentor and transfer knowledge to internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior SAP Basis administration and engineering across the SAP landscape.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain SAP systems, and manage their lifecycle.
• Manage transports, clients, system refreshes and SAP environments.
• Monitor and optimise performance, availability and reliability; troubleshoot complex platform issues.
• Design and implement high-availability, backup, recovery and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Support security, infrastructure and application teams to meet organisational standards and policies.
• Contribute to SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA planning, design, implementation and migration activities.
• Conduct technical assessments, readiness reviews and proof-of-concept work for modernisation initiatives.
• Develop technical documentation, operating procedures and support models; mentor colleagues and transfer knowledge.
• Participate in an on-call roster and scheduled release shifts if required.

Skills

SAP Basis administration

S/4HANA expertise

SAP landscape architecture

SAP upgrades and migrations

Database migration to SAP HANA

High availability

Linux infrastructure

Cloud architectures

Security and compliance

Education

SAP certification (Basis/HANA)

Tools

SAP Tools

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – SAP Basis Federal Government

Experience Level

• EL1 equivalent

Location of Work

• Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
• Adelaide, South Australia
• Brisbane, Queensland
• Melbourne, Victoria
• Sydney, New South Wales
• Hybrid working is available. You will need to be within reasonable travelling distance of your selected city’s agency premises and able to attend onsite when required for emergencies or business needs.

Contract Term

• Initial contract of 12 months, with extensions available up to a maximum total contract term of 24 months.

Security Clearance

• Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) clearance is required. You must hold and maintain this clearance for the duration of the contract.

About The Organisation

Our client is a large Australian Government organisation at the forefront of public service delivery, supporting millions of Australians. It is investing in technology, platforms and capabilities to improve the delivery of essential services. The organisation’s digital services depend on stable, secure and available enterprise systems. Its technology teams work across infrastructure and business platforms, supporting ongoing operations while delivering modernisation initiatives.

About The Role

You will join teams responsible for the infrastructure that supports critical digital services. In this senior technical role, you will provide specialist SAP Basis engineering expertise across a complex SAP landscape, helping maintain and modernise the platforms on which essential business systems rely. A key focus will be supporting the organisation’s SAP S/4HANA transition, including the migration of SAP workloads and databases to SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA. You will contribute to technical assessments, landscape design, migration planning, system conversions, testing and operational readiness. Working with architects, platform engineers, project teams, security specialists and Australian Public Service colleagues, you will advise on SAP operations and future-state architecture. You will also build internal capability through mentoring, documentation, workshops and day-to-day knowledge sharing.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior SAP Basis administration and engineering across the SAP landscape.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain SAP systems, and manage their lifecycle.
• Manage transports, clients, system refreshes and SAP environments.
• Monitor and optimise performance, availability and reliability; troubleshoot complex platform issues.
• Design and implement high-availability, backup, recovery and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Support security, infrastructure and application teams to meet organisational standards and policies.
• Contribute to SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA planning, design, implementation and migration activities.
• Conduct technical assessments, readiness reviews and proof-of-concept work for modernisation initiatives.
• Develop technical documentation, operating procedures and support models; mentor colleagues and transfer knowledge.
• Participate in an on-call roster and scheduled release shifts if required.

Required Technical Skills

• Expert-level SAP Basis administration, including installation, configuration, transport management, monitoring, performance tuning, patching, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Strong SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA technical expertise.
• SAP landscape architecture, administration and operational support.
• Planning and delivery of SAP upgrades, migrations and technical conversions.
• Database migration and transition of SAP workloads to SAP HANA.
• SAP high availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Linux and enterprise infrastructure supporting SAP systems.
• Cloud-hosted and hybrid SAP architectures.
• ICT security, risk and compliance practices.

Required Experience

• Demonstrated senior experience as an SAP Basis Administrator, SAP Basis Engineer or SAP Technical Engineering Expert in a large, complex SAP environment.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, migrations, conversions or modernisation programmes.
• Proven involvement in SAP workload and database migrations, including planning, execution, testing, cutover and operational readiness.
• Experience providing technical advice and collaborating with architects, engineers, project teams, vendors and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to develop technical documentation and operating procedures, mentor colleagues and transfer knowledge to internal teams.
• Current SAP certification in SAP Basis or System Administration and SAP HANA, or equivalent SAP technology qualifications.
• Experience in Australian Government or similarly regulated environments is desirable; experience with cloud or hybrid SAP platforms and large-scale ERP transformation is also advantageous.

Why Apply

Contribute your SAP expertise to technology that supports essential services for millions of Australians. You will play a hands‑on role in maintaining critical platforms while helping shape their modernisation and transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA. The position offers scope to influence technical decisions, work with multidisciplinary specialists and help strengthen the organisation’s in‑house SAP capability through mentoring and knowledge sharing. Hybrid arrangements are available across five capital‑city locations.