SAP Basis and Security Administrator

Be a Catalyst; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Be a Catalyst in Bengaluru seeks an experienced SAP Basis and Security Administrator to manage a large SAP landscape, ensuring high availability and secure changes across environments.

The role requires hands-on SAP Basis on S/4HANA, transport governance, performance tuning, and SoD remediation, with ITIL-aligned change processes and AMS collaboration. Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of SAP Basis and security administration experience.
• Hands-on SAP Basis on S/4HANA landscape.
• Experience with SAP transports, system copies, upgrades and patches.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Notes, Support Packages and kernel updates.
• Experience in SAP GRC remediation and SoD analysis.
• Familiarity with ITIL Change/Problem Management and AMS environments.
• Cloud infrastructure exposure (Azure/AWS/GCP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute SAP installations, copies, refreshes, migrations, and upgrades with rollback procedures.
• Apply SAP Support Packages, Kernel Updates, SAP Notes, and system patches.
• Manage SAP maintenance schedules and coordinate technical activities with stakeholders.
• Perform SAP Basis administration and HANA database performance optimization.
• Analyze system performance, memory usage, and database performance issues.
• Investigate EarlyWatch findings and implement corrective actions.
• Manage SAP Transport Management System (TMS) and release governance.
• Monitor SAP system health, background jobs, interfaces, dumps, and production performance.
• Design and maintain SAP Security roles, including Single and Composite Roles.
• Troubleshoot authorization issues using SU53, ST01, and SUIM.
• Perform SoD analysis and coordinate remediation with SAP GRC and process owners.
• Manage user provisioning, emergency access, and access reviews.
• Support SAP security audits and maintain evidence.

Skills

SAP Basis

Security administration

SoD analysis

ITIL

Tools

ST03

ST01

SUIM

HANA Studio

HANA Cockpit

TMS

GRC

RISE with SAP

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

The ideal candidates should have extensive experience managing complex SAP landscapes, ensuring system availability, security, performance, and seamless movement of technical changes across development, quality, and production environments.

This role involves SAP Level 3 / Level 4 application support for a large manufacturing environment.

To maintain a secure, highly available, and optimized SAP landscape while managing SAP Basis operations, security administration, production support, technical upgrades, and transport governance.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute SAP system installations, copies, refreshes, migrations, and upgrades with documented rollback procedures.
• Apply SAP Support Packages, Kernel Updates, SAP Notes, and system patches.
• Manage SAP maintenance schedules and coordinate technical activities with business stakeholders.
• Perform SAP Basis administration and HANA database performance optimization.
• Analyze system performance, memory utilization, work processes, and database performance issues.
• Investigate SAP EarlyWatch findings and implement corrective actions.
• Manage SAP Transport Management System (TMS), transport routes, import queues, and release governance.
• Monitor SAP system health, background jobs, interfaces, system dumps, and production performance.
• Design, configure, and maintain SAP Security roles, including Single Roles and Composite Roles.
• Troubleshoot SAP authorization issues using SU53, ST01, and SUIM.
• Perform Segregation of Duties (SoD) analysis and coordinate remediation with SAP GRC and business process owners.
• Manage user provisioning, emergency access, and periodic user access reviews.
• Support SAP security audits and maintain required access control evidence.
• Support High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) testing, and backup validation.
• Collaborate with functional, technical, infrastructure, and security teams to resolve complex production issues.
• Maintain SAP landscape documentation, security concepts, technical runbooks, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years or 8–12 years of relevant SAP Basis and Security administration experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAP Basis administration on SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience in SAP Installation, System Copy, System Refresh, Upgrade, Migration, and Patching.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Support Packages, Kernel Updates, and SAP Notes.
• Hands-on experience in SAP Transport Management and Landscape Governance.
• Expertise in SAP Performance Analysis and System Optimization.
• Experience using ST03, ST22, SM50, SQL Trace, HANA Studio, and HANA Cockpit.
• Knowledge of work process monitoring, memory management, and HANA statement tuning.
• Strong experience in SAP Security Role Design and Authorization Management.
• Hands-on experience in creating and maintaining Single Roles and Composite Roles.
• Experience troubleshooting authorization issues using SU53, ST01, and SUIM.
• Strong understanding of Segregation of Duties (SoD) and SAP GRC remediation.
• Experience managing production SAP environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• SAP Cloud Infrastructure experience – Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with RISE with SAP.
• Experience in ITIL-aligned Change Management and Problem Management.
• Experience working in Application Management Services (AMS) environments.
• Advanced SAP Basis and Security Administration Training.
• ITIL Intermediate or Service Operations Certification.