HANA DBA - Consultant

NTT DATA Business Solutions; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT solutions provider in Bengaluru is seeking a Database Administrator specializing in SAP HANA. Responsibilities include managing technical incidents, performing installations, and ensuring system availability and performance. Ideal candidates should possess 3 to 6 years of experience, strong analytical skills, and a degree in a relevant field. This role is vital for maintaining high performance and availability of SAP solutions across international teams.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of experience with SAP HANA.
• Expertise in HANA installation, upgrade, and administration.
• Ability to perform end-to-end health checks and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical incidents and service requests.
• Perform installations, patching, and upgrades of HANA.
• Ensure high availability of SAP systems and disaster recovery.

Skills

SAP HANA Database architecture

Linux operating system

HANA backup and recovery

System performance tuning

Troubleshooting DB performance issues

HANA user management

Analytical skills

Customer-focused solution orientation

Education

Degree in business informatics or computer science

IT training

Job description

Qualifications

• Good understanding & knowledge on SAP HANA Database architecture.
• Knowledge of basic Linux operating system.
• HANA installation, upgrade, and renaming of HANA instances as part of administration.
• Knowledge of HANA backup and recovery concepts using traditional and Backint methods.
• Perform DB restarts and troubleshoot issues related to MDC/Non-MDC environments (using OS level commands & studio).
• Installing HANA 2.0 MDC end‑to‑end.
• Perform DB client upgrades, add‑on installations and handle related issues.
• Perform HANA version upgrades to different SPs in HANA 2.0.
• Expertise monitoring alerts triggered from HANA studio and taking necessary actions to suppress them.
• Apply licences for HANA systems using OS/Studio environments.
• Audit log management and enable audit log for users.
• Enable/disable different types of traces for performance analysis.
• Perform end‑to‑end system health checks.
• Experience with HANA user management.
• Troubleshooting skills related to backup‑recovery, memory, CPU utilisation and DB performance tuning.
• Parameter configuration changes in HANA DB.
• Perform backup recovery and point‑in‑time recovery for both MDC and Non‑MDC systems.
• Handle HANA outages such as system down, system hang and slowness situations by meeting required SLAs.
• Handle P1 and P2 incidents and provide timely solutions to customers by meeting required KPIs.
• Driving the shift by taking shift‑lead responsibility (additive advantage).
• Own a degree (e.g., business informatics, computer science) or IT training or are a career changer with IT affinity and experience.
• Outstanding analytical skills, technical affinity and a strong customer‑focused solution orientation.

Experience: 3 to 6 years

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for message processing, technical incident management, service and change request management as well as problem management and root cause analysis.
• Perform installation, patching and upgrade activities.
• Responsible for performance monitoring and tuning, backup and restore as well as recovery procedures.
• Ensure high availability of the systems including disaster recovery setup.
• Provide technical expertise and support in optimising system operation / system architecture.
• Support the development of concepts and tools to solve and prevent problems and increase efficiency.
• Work in international teams and drive global knowledge transfer and documentation.
• Conduct workshops and training courses for customers and ensure knowledge transfer within the team; supervise juniors and trainees.
• Plan, set up and implement technical migration projects and improve product and processes.

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