Senior SAP BASIS Administrator

VTRAC Consulting Corporation

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Job ID: 21-00012

Title: Senior SAP BASIS Administrator

Type: Permanent

No. of Positions: 1

Location: GTA

Organization:

This team works in an environment built on:

Teamwork, flexibility and respect
Competitive salary including bonus
Health and dental benefits effective immediately.
Company pension plan with matched contribution
Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
Fitness reimbursement
Great company culture-Respect for people and continuous improvement is at our core
Paid holiday shutdown and competitive paid time off benefits

Position Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a technology enthusiast to support our Information Services department. This is a full-time opportunity and the selected candidate will provide technical direction, recommendations, oversight and support to internal IS Teams and 3^rd party support vendors as it relates to the SAP Technical Landscape. This role will include oversight and day-to-day functions for landscape design, installation, configuration, deployment, technical security, monitoring, system administration as well as release management including, coordination and verification of all testing, documentation, cutover planning and approvals, and other release requirements.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for directing the design, installation and operation of the SAP system landscape, client and transport processes.
Oversee the configuration and management of all non-functional platform capabilities including job scheduling, output management, email, archiving, technical security, and technical connectivity between software components.
Define guidelines for system/technical testing, monitoring, performance tuning and maintenance of SAP software components.
Liaise with the infrastructure team, hosting and AMS providers for design, procurement and deployment of SAP hardware and related assets.
Define guidelines for regular maintenance of patches and support packages for all technical layers that aligns with IS policies and procedures.
Responsible for technical aspects of Disaster Recovery configuration and procedures including review of vendor’s disaster recovery configuration and recovery documentation and scripts and test results.
Establish guidelines for backup and high availability and oversee their implementation.
Responsible for creating system landscape refresh strategy for SAP systems.

Perform OSS and SAP Service Marketplace research for review of OSS notes and creating and monitoring OSS tickets.
Perform software, license key and maintenance certificate downloads.
Perform developer and object registrations and connection maintenance.
Oversee and review monitoring processes for infrastructure and SAP applications including: monitoring the servers, background jobs, work processes, application servers, and system logs.
Monitor the performance of the overall SAP Landscape.
Manage risks and resolve issues affecting release scope, schedule, and quality.
Measure and monitor release progress to ensure delivery is following company standard release processes (ITIL).
Lead and coordinate technical Go-Live activities, including the execution of deployment plans and checklists, conducts release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and ‘Go / No-Go’ reviews.

Provide guidance and oversight of 3^rd party support vendors to ensure technology solutions meet company standards.
Provide subject matter expertise, escalated technical support and consultation to 3^rd party support vendors and internal IS Teams.
Provide strategic direction and oversight for the infrastructure environment and related components.
Work with Architecture Team and SAP Solution Architect to develop infrastructure architecture and roadmaps in alignment with current and future business priorities.
Analyse the current architecture to identify weaknesses and to develop opportunities for improvements such as expanding capacity, reducing time and cost, and increasing effectiveness.
Keep abreast of infrastructure trends and new technologies and determines relevance to infrastructure.
Assist with capacity planning and recommend hardware and software upgrade options.
Work with vendors and internal teams for creation of RFI/RFQ/RFP/SOW/A3/A4 documents.
Work with multiple project teams, including the design and modelling of solutions, component identification and acquisition, quality review, and development of guidelines, training material and procedures.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create requirements, evaluate vendor solutions and find solutions to integrate them into the environment.
Create, update, and maintain pertinent system documentation for procedures, policies, permissions, landscapes and standards, and system-monitoring checklists.
Utilize performance reports to analyse system activities and recommend configuration and tuning changes to prevent system performance issues and optimize the resource usage.
Establish and maintain strong relationships with IS teams
Review security access methods and compliance audit requirements.
Assist QA teams during load testing and for real time monitoring of all stages of application deployment (Development, QA Load Test and Production).

What You Bring:

10+ years of progressive experience within Information Technology with emphasis on infrastructure support.
5+ years of SAP Basis experience; S/4 Hana experience and SAP certification is an asset.

3-5 years of experience with technical release management planning and execution using ITIL.
Extensive knowledge, understanding and ability to troubleshoot SAP Basis, SAP Landscapes, SAP Transport Management (CHARM), SAP Solution Manager, SAP Router, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP PI/PO, SAP Enable Now, MS SQL Server, BOBJ, BW/BI, BPC, and Fiori.
Experience performing SAP System install, upgrades, EHP upgrades, system refreshes and system and client copies.

Experience with backup and restore methodologies for SAP.

Strong understanding of SAP integration points and interfaces designs.
Strong hands-on configuration and design skills.
Experience with database management: Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, HANA, Sybase, MaxDB.
Experience with various operating systems: Windows Server, Unix/Linux,

Proficient with MS Office suite including MS Project and Visio.
Experience with cloud technologies, providers, and application design considerations.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including influencing, collaborating, facilitating, and negotiating skills.
Must be able to gather detailed technical requirements, design technical solutions and create the required documents for both technical and non-technical audiences working in-conjunction with third parties.
Ability to lead and manage projects and proof of concepts.
Demonstrated dependability and commitment to both quality and due dates.
Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that varying IT and Business Teams may understand.
Outstanding communication, organization, time management, and interpersonal skills.
Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.
Clear understanding of ITIL and Change Management processes.
Excellent analytical skills, problem solving skill and creative thinking.

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Senior SAP BASIS Administrator Permanent

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