SAP HANA Database Administrator

Weekday AI (YC W21); Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) in India is seeking an experienced SAP HANA Database Administrator to manage SAP HANA environments across production and non-production landscapes.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of hands-on SAP HANA administration, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, performance tuning, installation, upgrades, and production support.

Location includes Mumbai among other cities; this is a full-time role requiring collaboration with global teams to ensure high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on SAP HANA Database Administration experience.
• Experience with HANA 2.0 MDC and Non-MDC environments.
• Familiarity with backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery.

Responsibilities

• Administer SAP HANA databases across production and non-production environments.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
• Monitor health, alerts, and performance; troubleshoot using HANA tools and OS commands.
• Manage backups, recovery, and high availability, including DR concepts.
• Coordinate with global teams to ensure high availability and reliability.

Skills

SAP HANA administration

Troubleshooting

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Installation and upgrades

Production support

Tools

HANA Studio

Linux OS

Job description

This role is for one of the Weekly's clients

Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 3000000 (ie INR 10-30 LPA)

Experience: 6+ yrs

Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka, NCR, Telangana, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced SAP HANA Database Administrator to manage, maintain, monitor, and support SAP HANA database environments across production and non-production landscapes. The role requires strong expertise in SAP HANA administration, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, performance management, installation, upgrades, and production support.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing critical database environments, resolving complex technical incidents, supporting maintenance activities, and collaborating with global teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of HANA systems.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support SAP HANA databases across production and non-production environments


• Perform HANA installation, configuration, instance administration, patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities


• Manage HANA 2.0 MDC and Non-MDC environments


• Monitor database health, system alerts, availability, resource utilisation, and overall system performance


• Troubleshoot database issues using HANA administration tools, HANA Studio, logs, traces, and OS-level commands


• Manage HANA backup, restore, recovery, and point-in-time recovery activities


• Work with Backint and traditional backup methods and ensure backup processes are reliable and recoverable


• Perform database restart, recovery, and troubleshooting activities during planned and unplanned events


• Monitor and troubleshoot CPU, memory, storage, and database performance issues


• Perform HANA performance tuning and analyse system behaviour to identify bottlenecks


• Manage HANA users, licenses, audit logs, parameters, traces, and related administration activities


• Handle P1/P2 incidents, production outages, and critical database issues within defined service levels


• Perform root-cause analysis and document corrective and preventive actions for recurring issues


• Manage technical incidents, service requests, change requests, and problem-management activities


• Support High Availability, Disaster Recovery, migration, and infrastructure-related activities where required


• Coordinate with infrastructure, SAP, application, security, and other technical teams to resolve cross-functional issues


• Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting knowledge articles


• Participate in knowledge-transfer sessions and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives


• Support global shift operations and take shift lead responsibilities when required


• Follow established security, compliance, change-management, and operational procedures

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in SAP HANA Database Administration


• Strong understanding of SAP HANA database architecture and administration


• Proven experience with HANA 2.0 MDC and Non-MDC environments


• Strong hands-on experience with HANA installation, upgrades, patching, configuration, and instance administration


• Strong knowledge of backup, restore, recovery, and point-in-time recovery


• Experience with Backint and traditional HANA backup methods


• Strong troubleshooting skills using HANA Studio, database tools, logs, traces, and Linux/OS-level commands


• Good understanding of HANA monitoring, alerts, system health checks, and operational support


• Strong knowledge of HANA performance tuning, including CPU and memory troubleshooting


• Experience managing HANA users, licenses, audit logs, parameters, and trace configurations


• Basic to good knowledge of Linux operating systems


• Proven experience handling P1/P2 incidents, production outages, and critical database issues


• Understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts is an advantage


• Experience supporting technical migrations and database maintenance activities is desirable


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform effective root-cause analysis


• Excellent communication and customer-handling skills


• Ability to work effectively with global, cross-functional, and distributed technical teams


• Strong documentation, knowledge-transfer, and operational discipline


• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and perform effectively in shift-based production support environments