ERP Systems Administrator

Blackfluo.ai; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in ERP solutions is looking for an experienced ERP Systems Administrator. This remote role involves managing ERP systems, supporting users, performing upgrades, and leading initiatives for continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in ERP administration and excellent problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive ERP administration experience, including upgrades and patching.
• Good scripting skills using Linux shell and Oracle SQL.
• Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the ERP system, ensure smooth operations.
• Provide user support and troubleshoot basic issues.
• Run disaster recovery and validation tests.

Skills

ERP administration

Linux shell scripting

Oracle SQL

customer-centric approach

Tools

ServiceNow

Confluence

Jira

Ansible

Job description

• Location: Fully remote, Central Europe Time Zone
• Languages: English is mandatory

An ERP Systems Administrator's duties encompass managing and maintaining the ERP system, ensuringits smooth operation, and supporting users, including tasks like user access management, systemconfiguration, troubleshooting, and implementing patches and upgrades.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic guidance for ERP systems hosted on prem, in cloud or as SaaS services as required
• Help identify technical problems and propose solutions in line with problem and resolution management processes.
• Monitor, analyze and propose performances optimization of the supported infrastructure and systems.
• Develop and maintain detailed technical documentation as needed.
• Assist the Service Owner and Team Lead in the delivery of UNICC Service Delivery Agreements (SDAs) to UNICC customers
• Assist with the coordination, preparation, presentation and implementation of proposals and projects linked to the SDAs
• Be a go-to expert for troubleshooting ERP related issues
• Manage, prioritize and take ownership of tasks assigned to ERP team as required
  • includes service requests, change requests, incidents, project tasks and others as required
• Monitor and take ownership of tasks assigned to ERP team ensuring completion within SLA targets

Junior ERP Administrator

• Participating in ERP testing and validation activities.
• Providing first-level user support and troubleshooting basic issues.
• Learning and developing expertise in ERP technologies.
• Assist in automation of routine ERP tasks.

ERP Administrator

• Run disaster recovery and validation tests.
• Ensure availability and security of ERP systems.
• Implement, patch and upgrade ERP systems in coordination with ERP service users.
• Implement and maintain ERP automation routines
• Providing guidance to junior team members.

SeniorERP Administrator

• Lead ERP initiatives for improving all aspects of the ERP service.
• Design and implement ERP security policies.
• Plan, coordinate and execute ERP implementations, patching and upgrades.
• Coordinate ERP activities with junior team members.
• Provide guidance to junior team members.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Extensive ERP administration experience, including upgrades and patching
• Provide operational and deployment support for all ERP services hosted on-premises and cloud
• Design, install, configure and support ERP infrastructure components
• Perform environment clones, migrations and deployments to production environments
• Assist in the infrastructure refresh and migration to cloud related projects
• Perform capacity management, and monitor, analyze and propose improvements to the ERP services
• Assist, plan, and conduct disaster recovery tests
• Good scripting skills using Linux shell, Oracle SQL and/or other automation tools
• Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.
• Customer-centric approach to delivery and problem solving.
• Provide on-call support (either on-site or remotely using VPN connectivity) outside normal working hours as required on a rotational basis
• Experience with ticketing systems (ServiceNow or similar)
• Experience with collaboration tools (Confluence, Jira, etc.).
• Relational Databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server)
• Experience in integrating with Oracle Cloud products such as Taleo, EPM Planning, OracleIntegration Cloud, etc.
• Experience with Ansible or related IT automation tools