SAP BASIS, AWS Senior Engineer
Location: Remote
Security Clearance: [ship with Public trust / Secret / Top Secret -- Required]
Role Description:
The SAP BASIS / AWS Senior Engineer executes the technical administration, monitoring, and maintenance of the S/4HANA landscape and its underlying AWS infrastructure. Working within a technical squad, this role performs hands-on system installations, upgrades, and performance tuning to ensure 24/7 stability. The Engineer bridges the gap between SAP application layers and cloud-native services, ensuring that the S/4HANA environment is secure, resilient, and optimized for federal performance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Execute System Installation & Configuration: Perform the technical installation, configuration, and setup of S/4HANA, Fiori, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) components within the AWS ecosystem.
Manage AWS Infrastructure: Execute the deployment and management of AWS resources including EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and S3 buckets ensuring they meet SAP-certified specifications and federal security requirements.
Perform HANA Database Administration: Execute hands-on administration of the SAP HANA database, including performance monitoring, memory management, and the configuration of HANA System Replication (HSR).
Support High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Execute and test HA/DR failover procedures using AWS-native tools (such as Route53 or AWS Backint) and SAP-specific clustering solutions to ensure system resilience.
Execute System Maintenance & Patching: Perform technical upgrades, SAP Kernel updates, and the application of Security Notes (SNOTE) to maintain system health and security compliance.
Maintain Transport Management (TMS): Manage the SAP transport landscape (STMS), ensuring the consistent movement of changes across Development, Quality, and Production environments.
Monitor System Performance: Utilize SAP Solution Manager, Focused Run, or Amazon CloudWatch to perform real-time monitoring of system health, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
Support Technical Integration: Collaborate with the Technical Architecture Lead and Security teams to execute the integration of SAP systems with federal IAM solutions and third-party interfaces.
Execute Backup & Recovery Tasks: Perform regular system backups and execute data recovery drills, ensuring that the environment meets established RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets.
Basic Qualifications
Core Experience: Professional experience in SAP BASIS administration with a strong focus on S/4HANA and HANA 2.0 database management.
AWS Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience managing SAP workloads on AWS, including familiarity with AWS Launch Wizard for SAP and AWS Systems Manager.
Technical Troubleshooting: Advanced skills in analyzing system logs (ABAP dumps, HANA traces, Linux logs) to resolve complex technical issues.
Linux Administration: Proficiency in SUSE or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration as it pertains to SAP HANA environments.
Collaborative Communication: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to support technical workshops and clearly communicate system status to the Technical Lead and functional squads.
Federal-Specific Requirements
U.S. Citizenship: Required.
Security Compliance: Familiarity with federal security frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST 800-53) as they apply to cloud-hosted infrastructure and data encryption.