SAP BASIS Administrator IT Careers – Umeme
Job Title: SAP BASIS Administrator
Organization: Umeme
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: IT Infrastructure Manager
About US:
Umeme is a public company cross listed on both the Uganda Securities Exchange and the Nairobi Securities Exchange with over 6,483 shareholders, including high value international institutional investors. Umeme operates under a concession with a structural monopoly in the distribution of electricity across Uganda, distributing 99% of electricity in Uganda through a single buyer model.
Job Summary: The SAP BASIS Administrator will ensure that all SAP environments are maintained to a high level of operational excellence in accordance with SAP best practices. The SAP BASIS Administrator will be responsible for:
- The administration of all SAP environments and instances, ensuring their optimal performance and availability. Administration includes configuration, transport management, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting.
- Ensuring that changes are implemented in line with the change control process and the execution of backup and recovery processes
- Performs system sizing, architecture and design of the technical landscape down to the level of hardware layout according to SAP best practices and recommendations.
- Manages upgrade processes including functional and technical specifications.
- Provides support to the end user.
- Handles new installs, upgrades and maintenance. Integration of SAP with other systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Allocate associated hardware resources to the SAP applications and databases to ensure they are operating correctly and have a high level of resilience and performance.
- Plan and implement periodic maintenance to ensure the optimal performance of all SAP related systems and databases.
- Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
- Proactively monitor the SAP systems with EarlyWatch to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
- Reviews projects and recommends availability and usability of SAP in-house tools to support requirements
- SAP system checks (monitoring) to enhance performance and proactively deal with any potential failures
- Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of all SAP Productions (PRD), Quality Assurance (QA) and Development (DEV) environments.
- Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the environments including patch management and upgrades.
- Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and change control.
- Responsible for SAP portal integration and availability
- Ensuring that all transports between DEV and QA and PRD environments are fully documented and take place in accordance with the approve change control processes.
- Assist with the maintenance of Authorizations as required
- Responsible for the scheduling and maintaining of automated backup and recovery processes and activities for all SAP systems on an hourly and daily basis
- Design, implement and action the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) relating to the SAP environments so that they are accurate and up to date and systems can be recovered in a timely manner when required
- Regular QA & DEV data refreshes
- Provide functional users with support through troubleshooting errors, dumps and system failures
- Reviews bugs, investigates issues, proposes solutions, liaise with SAP and apply fixes
- Investigate SAP notes and log calls with SAP and follow through on outcomes and solutions
- Deals with logged support calls as related to technical issues on SAP for end users
- Sizing of hardware in terms of CPU, memory and drive layouts according to SAP recommendations to ensure optimal performance of the systems
- Import and export of systems following SAP system copy guides which can also lead to defragmented databases
- Migration to new versions of OS and Database
- Design of server layout for distributed installations
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Umeme SAP BASIS Administrator job vacancy must hold a Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- SAP BASIS Certification (SAP HANA)
- At least ten years of experience in SAP BASIS Administration
- Strong working knowledge of SAP Solution Manager
- Detailed SAP Database Administration experience.
- Experience of managing multiple SAP environments including upgrades
- Experience of Transport management and batch job scheduling procedures.
- Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a SAP environment and database to provide a high availability service and the configuration and use of EarlyWatch
- Working experience of SAP Authorizations
- Extensive experience of systems copies
- Working knowledge of SAP Fiori
Competencies:
- Strong analytical skills
- High level of technical competency
- The ability to apply the principles of problem solving techniques to identify and resolve a problem in the best interest of all stakeholders
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with others
- Honesty and Integrity
- Attention to detail
- Persistence, and the ability to follow through and bring tasks to completion
- Multi-tasking
- Self-Responsibility
- Customer Focused
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should first fill out their application forms online, Click Here and thereafter send their updated CVs to: recruit.hr@umeme.co.ug.
Deadline: 22nd June 2018 by 5:00 PM
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