Senior SAP Basis Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boardroom Appointments

Boardroom Appointments

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Key purpose:

The Senior Basis Consultant will be responsible for the planning, installation, configuration, migration and maintenance, Build to Run transition, Production monitoring of SAP instances and associated software tools, building best practices around SAP Migrations and performance optimisation and achieve continuous improvement through tuning.

The individual will also provide assistance and consultation to other infrastructure staff and work within cross-functional teams.

Duties and responsibilities**:

Maintains platform or system health and availability requirements including HADR testing.
Resolves support issues involving production systems.
Partners with Enterprise Architecture teams for product selection and product capability roadmaps and information governance processes.
Interfaces with business solution teams and partners on operational platform events as well as solution design needs

Qualifications, skills and experience**:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required.
Able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of management.
Must have strong analytical and problemsolving skills, an ability to work independently, and the ability to multitask.
Three years of experience in SAP Basis and/or Oracle preferred.
Minimum 5 years of experience in a SAP Basis technical consulting role.
SAP Certification required.
Work as SAP Technology SME in SAP Basis/Hana.
Capacity planning of SAP systems.
Planning, installation, and maintenance of SAP software.
Implementation of SAP at an enterprise level and performing migrations.
Proficiency in SAP Basis, traditional DBs and Hana Administration.
Provide expertise related to SAP and DB performance, HA/DR, and scalability.
Monitoring with both adhoc tools and automated scripts or procedures.
Support/recommend reporting, query and analysis tools ensuring efficient SAP/database utilisation.
Diagnosis of problems and resolution for SAP systems.
SAP system performance monitoring, alerting (using Solution Manager etc.) and tuning to meet business KPIs.
Modification of system level configuration to optimize performance.
Interface with developers and modelers for performance and data access requirements.
Development of standards and procedures for the SAP environment.
Consultation with infrastructure teams on configuration best practices etc.
Stay current with SAP technology developments and techniques, research new software and tools, proactively recommend improvements.
Evaluation and utilization of software products to assist in the management of SAP ecosystem.
Working experience in Cloud Technologies (GCP/AWS) and hosting SAP Platform on cloud.
Working experience in Solution Manager configuration Technical Monitoring, Charm, etc.