Database Administrator - SAP HANA / SAP Basis

RemoteLeads; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work arrangement

1+ year contract engagement

Hourly rate upon request

Job summary

RemoteLeads is seeking an experienced SAP HANA administrator to join our team supporting large-scale SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA landscapes. You will handle installations, upgrades, backups, and system refreshes while ensuring security hardening and robust disaster recovery processes.

The role requires deep expertise across SAP HANA, S/4HANA, and SAP Basis in enterprise environments, with strong cloud integrations via SAP Cloud Connector, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BTP, and SDI/Data Provisioning

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on SAP HANA DB admin and Basis support experience.
• Experience with SAP HANA, S/4HANA, Basis, and cloud-connected SAP apps in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with SAP Cloud Connector, Analytics Cloud, BTP, and SDI integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher; SAP certs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot SAP HANA and S/4HANA landscapes.
• Perform installations, backups, recovery, and system copies or refreshes.
• Manage ABAP/NetWeaver, transports, jobs, RFCs, spool, and availability checks.
• Configure SAP Cloud Connector and BTP connectivity; troubleshoot SSL and certs.
• Support Analytics Cloud integrations and SDI/Data Provisioning tasks.
• Develop runbooks, documentation, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Participate in change management, DR drills, and on-call support.

Skills

SAP HANA administration

S/4HANA operations

Cloud integration (SAP BTP, SDI)

Security hardening

Incident response

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SAP HANA Cockpit

SAP HANA Studio

SAP Solution Manager

SAP Focused Run

Job description

Description:

• Administer, monitor, maintain, upgrade, patch, tune, and troubleshoot highly available SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
• Perform SAP HANA installations, revision upgrades, backups and recovery, system replication, tenant database management, user and role administration, security hardening, and system copies or refreshes.
• Manage SAP NetWeaver ABAP and SAP S/4HANA operations, including kernel and support package maintenance, transports, clients, background jobs, RFC connections, spool administration, and availability checks.
• Configure and troubleshoot SAP Cloud Connector, including subaccounts, high availability, certificates, trust relationships, access mappings, virtual hosts, ports, and SAP BTP connectivity.
• Support SAP Analytics Cloud integrations with SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA, including live and import connections, agents, authentication, certificates, and end-to-end troubleshooting.
• Configure and operate SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Access, including Data Provisioning Agent, remote sources, flowgraphs, replication tasks, subscriptions, adapters, and monitoring.
• Diagnose SDI latency, failed tasks, connectivity and certificate issues, database errors, and data consistency problems while coordinating with technical teams.
• Maintain SSL/TLS certificates, trust stores, and secure communication configurations across enterprise systems.
• Develop operational procedures, architecture documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Participate in incident response, change management, disaster recovery exercises, capacity planning, and on-call support.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP HANA database administration and SAP Basis support.
• Experience supporting SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Basis, and cloud-connected SAP applications in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with SAP Cloud Connector, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BTP, and SDI/Data Provisioning Agent integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• SAP HANA, SAP Basis, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, or SAP Analytics Cloud certifications are strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio or Database Explorer, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP Focused Run preferred.
• Knowledge of firewalls, load balancers, DNS, proxies, DMZs, private connectivity, and third-party cloud environments.
• Ability to work independently, investigate unfamiliar issues, collaborate across infrastructure, security, network, and application teams, and resolve problems in regulated environments.

Benefits:

• Remote work arrangement.
• 1+ year contract engagement.
• Hourly rate available upon request.