SAP Basis Support Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by LHH
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Luton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The SAP Basis Support Engineer role requires a technically proficient individual to manage and support complex SAP landscapes, including S/4HANA and SAP HANA environments. The position emphasizes maintaining system stability, performance, and security while also supporting cloud administration and digital transformation initiatives. Strong troubleshooting skills and effective communication with stakeholders are essential for success in this role. Candidates must hold British nationality and be SC cleared or clearable due to security requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and support SAP landscapes across development, test and production environments
- Perform system monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution
- Manage database administration activities including backup, recovery and performance optimisation
- Execute system copies, client refreshes and transport management
- Deliver SAP installations, configuration and patching activities
- Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Ensure compliance with security, audit and regulatory standards
- Maintain accurate technical documentation and runbooks
- Collaborate with infrastructure, development and functional teams
Key Skills:
- SAP Basis Administration (Essential)
- End-to-end SAP landscape management across DEV, TEST and PROD
- System monitoring, log analysis and production troubleshooting
- Database Administration (Essential)
- SAP HANA (HSR), Sybase ASE (HADR), MaxDB, Oracle, SQL Server
- Backup, recovery and performance optimisation
- Operating Systems (Essential)
- Linux / Unix and Windows Server environments
- Monitoring, Performance & Resilience (Essential)
- SAP tools (SM50, ST22, SM37) and OS-level monitoring
- Performance tuning and bottleneck resolution
- Backup strategy, high availability, clustering and disaster recovery
- SAP Platform Expertise Installation & Configuration (Essential)
- SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Connector, UI5 / Fiori
- System Administration (Essential)
- System copies, client refreshes and transport management (TMS)
- Kernel upgrades, patching and release updates
- SAP HANA Administration (Essential)
- In-memory optimisation, schema management and backup configuration
- Solution Manager & Change (Important)
- Monitoring, EarlyWatch and ChaRM
- Upgrade & Migration Support (Important)
- SP/FP stack and release upgrades
- Security & Compliance
- User and role administration
- Secure configuration, encryption and system hardening
- Audit monitoring and regulatory compliance (including GDPR)
- Professional Competencies
- Strong incident and problem management
- Structured root cause analysis
- Clear technical documentation
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Collaborative cross-functional working
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Luton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Security requirement British eyes only- (Sole british nationality) SC cleared or clearable. We are seeking a technically strong SAP Basis Support Engineer to manage and support complex SAP landscapes, including S/4HANA, NetWeaver, SAP HANA and Sybase ASE environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining system stability, performance, resilience and security across the SAP estate. This role requires deep technical expertise combined with strong troubleshooting capability, structured documentation and clear stakeholder communication. Future-focused candidates will also demonstrate capability in cloud administration, automation and S/4HANA migration support to enable wider digital transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support SAP landscapes across development, test and production environments
- Perform system monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution
- Manage database administration activities including backup, recovery and performance optimisation
- Execute system copies, client refreshes and transport management
- Deliver SAP installations, configuration and patching activities
- Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Ensure compliance with security, audit and regulatory standards
- Maintain accurate technical documentation and runbooks
- Collaborate with infrastructure, development and functional teams
Core Technical Skills
- SAP Basis Administration (Essential)
- End-to-end SAP landscape management across DEV, TEST and PROD
- System monitoring, log analysis and production troubleshooting
- Database Administration (Essential)
- SAP HANA (HSR), Sybase ASE (HADR), MaxDB, Oracle, SQL Server
- Backup, recovery and performance optimisation
- Operating Systems (Essential)
- Linux / Unix and Windows Server environments
- Monitoring, Performance & Resilience (Essential)
- SAP tools (SM50, ST22, SM37) and OS-level monitoring
- Performance tuning and bottleneck resolution
- Backup strategy, high availability, clustering and disaster recovery
- SAP Platform Expertise Installation & Configuration (Essential)
- SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Connector, UI5 / Fiori
- System Administration (Essential)
- System copies, client refreshes and transport management (TMS)
- Kernel upgrades, patching and release updates
- SAP HANA Administration (Essential)
- In-memory optimisation, schema management and backup configuration
- Solution Manager & Change (Important)
- Monitoring, EarlyWatch and ChaRM
- Upgrade & Migration Support (Important)
- SP/FP stack and release upgrades
- Security & Compliance
- User and role administration
- Secure configuration, encryption and system hardening
- Audit monitoring and regulatory compliance (including GDPR)
- Professional Competencies
- Strong incident and problem management
- Structured root cause analysis
- Clear technical documentation
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Collaborative cross-functional working