Qualifications
Education and Work Experience:
- 8+ years of overall SAP experience
- 8+ years of BASIS experience
- 5+ years of SAP HANA experience
- 5+ years implementing SAP
- 2+ S/4 HANA implementation projects
- 2+ SAP SolMan upgrades
- 1+ SAP SolMan migration to Cloud
- 2+ SAP HANA 1.x to 2.00.x upgrades
- Strong understanding of S/4HANA and SAP best practices
- 2+ years of telecom industry experience (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Review existing current state migration approach and disposition document to validate it has all necessary information and actions for a successful upgrade
- Perform a comprehensive review of the Technical Design Document (TDD) to ensure you can deliver the solution as drafted
- Review future state requirements document to ensure you can deliver the future state design and architecture of an SAP Solution Manager with the following components: PAS (ABAP+JAVA), AAS (ABAP+JAVA), ASCS+ERS (JAVA), ERS (ABAP)+ SCS, WD) as written
- Perform an upgrade of SolMan 7.2 SP8 components from existing on prem SAP landscape to a Google Cloud hosted landscape for a Dev and Prod environment
- Perform an upgrade of the existing HANA 1.00.122.17 database and components to HANA 2.x for a Dev and Prod environment
- Complete all necessary testing (unit, regression, SIT, etc.) ensuring all capabilities function as expected
- Quickly identify, comprehend, and address any potential issues
- Collaborate with Cloud migration team to ensure successful, timely migration of SolMan 7.2 SP8 and migration and upgrade of HANA 1.00 to HANA 2.0
Specialized Knowledge, skills, and/or Abilities:
- Expertise in core SAP Basis capabilities such as: SAP system administration, client/server architecture, transport management, background job processing, system monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Deep understanding of all components of SAP Solution Manager, including PAS(ABAP+JAVA), AAS(ABAP+JAVA), ASCS+ERS(JAVA), ERS(ABAP)+ SCS, WD) as well as deployment of several functional modules and integration with other SAP systems.
- Ability to configure and implement SAP Solution Manager components responsible for monitoring and alerting, including early watch reports and automated monitoring based on industry best practices
- Possess technical proficiency with database administration and experience upgrading from HANA 1.00.x to HANA 2.00.x, and have a solid understanding of any potential version conflict with SAP SolMan 7.2 SP8
- Deep knowledge of operating systems, virtualization, and networking
- Experience with high availability (HA) production and development deployment and configuration of SAP Solution Manager
- Experience in planning and executing SAP system upgrades, database migrations, and system refreshes.
- Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
- Self-sufficient, able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong team collaboration skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Must enjoy working in a fast paced, high pressure environment