Senior Engineer - SAP Basis Admin

Esyasoft; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Esyasoft is seeking an experienced SAP Basis Administrator in Bengaluru to manage day-to-day SAP landscapes across Windows and Linux. You will support ECC, BW, S/4HANA, PO, Solution Manager, and BW/4HANA with emphasis on availability, performance, and security.

You will collaborate with security and functional teams, coordinate transports, perform kernel updates, and assist with HANA/DB maintenance in a complex client environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SAP Basis administration for enterprise landscapes.
• Experience with ECC, BW, S/4HANA and SAP BW/4HANA environments.
• Proficient in monitoring, troubleshooting, and security hardening.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Exposure to SAP HANA, SQL Server and Oracle databases is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day SAP Basis administration and health checks.
• Administer SAP ECC, BW, NetWeaver Java, PO, Solution Manager, S/4HANA, BW/4HANA.
• Manage start/stop, monitoring, background jobs, RFC checks, and transports.
• Handle user administration, profiles, and system configurations with security teams.
• Coordinate STMS transports and imports across environments.
• Carry out kernel updates, PSP/stack updates, and patching.
• Support SAP HANA administration including backups and performance checks.
• Collaborate with Azure infra teams for SAP workloads on Azure.

Skills

SAP Basis

System monitoring

Troubleshooting

Security & compliance

OS: Windows & Linux

Azure basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Equivalent SAP Basis experience

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP BW

SAP NetWeaver Java

SAP PO

SAP Solution Manager

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

Azure

Job description

The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and technical support of SAP landscapes. The role supports SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP NetWeaver Java, SAP PO, SAP Solution Manager, SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW/4HANA systems across Windows and Linux environments, including Microsoft Azure. The position requires 3-7 years of hands-on SAP Basis experience with SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle databases, with a strong focus on system availability, performance, security, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day SAP Basis administration, system monitoring, health checks, troubleshooting, and operational support across SAP landscapes.
• Administer and support SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP NetWeaver Java, SAP Process Orchestration (PO), SAP Solution Manager, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA systems.
• Perform SAP system start/stop, instance monitoring, work process monitoring, background job administration, spool administration, lock management, update monitoring, and RFC/connectivity checks.
• Manage SAP users from a Basis perspective, profiles/parameters, operation models, logon groups, SAP services, and technical system configurations in coordination with Security and functional teams.
• Support SAP transport management (STMS), transport imports, troubleshooting of failed imports, and coordination of transport activities across environments.
• Perform kernel upgrades, SAP Support Package/Stack updates, SAP Notes implementation support, add-on/component maintenance, and patching activities following approved change procedures.
• Support SAP HANA administration including monitoring, backup/recovery coordination, memory and performance monitoring, alerts, services, tenant/system database checks, and basic SQL troubleshooting.
• Support SAP systems running on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, including database monitoring, space management, backup/recovery coordination, connectivity, and performance troubleshooting with database teams.
• Administer SAP application environments on Windows Server and Linux, including file systems, permissions, services, mounts, OS-level checks, and coordination of OS patching and maintenance.
• Support SAP workloads hosted on Microsoft Azure, including virtual machines, storage, networking/connectivity, monitoring, backup/DR activities, and coordination with Azure infrastructure teams.
• Perform system copy/refresh, client administration and client copy activities, post-copy technical tasks, and environment validation as required.
• Monitor system performance and availability using SAP tools such as ST22, SM21, SM50/SM66, SM37, SM12, SM13, SM20, ST03N, ST04/DBACOCKPIT and related administration transactions.
• Support SAP Solution Manager / monitoring tools for system monitoring, EarlyWatch/technical monitoring, diagnostics, and operational reporting where applicable.
• Support SAP NetWeaver Java and PO systems, including Java instance monitoring, NWA administration, JVM/heap monitoring, deployments, logs/traces, and interface-related technical troubleshooting.
• Participate in SAP upgrades, migrations, S/4HANA transformation activities, HANA migrations, cloud migrations, high availability/disaster recovery tests, and planned maintenance activities.
• Manage and monitor SAP backups, file systems, certificates, RFCs, SAProuter/connectivity, interfaces, and technical batch operations; escalate infrastructure, network, or application issues appropriately.
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, operational runbooks, system inventory, change records, incident/problem records, and audit evidence.
• Work closely with SAP functional, ABAP/development, Security, Database, OS, Network, Cloud, and vendor teams to resolve incidents and deliver changes.
• Participate in on-call / out-of-hours support for planned changes and priority incidents when required, and follow ITIL-aligned incident, problem, change, and service management processes.

Job Specific Skills

• Strong foundation in core SAP Basis administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, transports, jobs, spools, locks, updates, RFCs, profiles/parameters, and system performance analysis.
• Hands-on support experience with SAP ECC and SAP BW; practical exposure to SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW/4HANA environments.
• Experience supporting SAP NetWeaver Java, SAP PO and SAP Solution Manager environments.
• Working knowledge of SAP HANA administration and familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases in SAP landscapes.
• Experience with Windows Server and Linux operating systems; ability to perform OS-level troubleshooting relevant to SAP applications.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and SAP workloads on Azure, including VM, storage, networking, backup and DR concepts.
• Understanding of SAP system copies/refreshes, upgrades, patching, kernel maintenance, support packages and migration activities.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, security hardening and SAP operational best practices.
• Good analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication and stakeholder-management skills; ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Bachelor degree in IT (BSc IT) or a related discipline.
• Equivalent relevant SAP Basis experience may also be considered.
• 3-7 years of hands-on experience in SAP Basis administration and technical operations, supporting enterprise SAP landscapes.
• Certifications: SAP Certified Technology Associate / SAP System Administration certification - preferred. SAP HANA administration certification - preferred. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or Azure Administrator (AZ-104) - added advantage. ITIL Foundation - preferred.

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