Platform Engineer SAP

Role & responsibilities

• Provide operational support for SAP and SAP HANA platforms across production and non-production environments.
• Perform SAP Basis administration, including system monitoring, client and system refreshes, kernel upgrades, support-pack implementation, certificate management and transport management.
• Participate in SAP system upgrades and migration activities.
• Support SAP HANA administration, including installation support, SPS and revision upgrades, system replication monitoring, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning.
• Support HANA Scale-Up and Scale-Out environments.
• Maintain platform compliance with security, resilience and support requirements.
• Provide L2/L3 support for SAP production systems.
• Participate in incident, problem, change and release management.
• Support troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, platform recovery and service restoration.
• Improve platform stability and operational efficiency.
• Support SAP workloads hosted on AWS.
• Work with AWS services and technologies such as EC2, EBS, EFS, FSx, cloud storage and BACKINT.
• Contribute to platform automation, standardisation and Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Ansible, Terraform and GitHub.
• Support monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
• Develop operational dashboards and identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.
• Contribute to DevOps and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP Basis experience in enterprise SAP environments
• SAP Basis administration
• Exposure to SAP HANA administration and support
• SAP production support experience
• Linux operating systems, preferably RHEL or SUSE
• SAP upgrades and maintenance
• High-availability concepts
• Backup and recovery
• Incident, problem and change management
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Associate certification
• SAP Certified Technology Associate
• SAP HANA Administration certification