Senior SAP BASIS Administrator

The individual hired for this position will provide SAP BASIS support to business customers and project teams within the EXD-SAP group at Microsoft. As a senior SAP Basis Administrator, this person will be the final point of escalation, and resolution for technical support. Provides advanced technical support to developers, corporate customers and end users for SAP related products, including highly escalated issues. Provides support via telephone, written correspondence, and ticketing systems. This person will maintain, troubleshoot and rollout change to the existing systems. The individual may also be the working actively on incident tickets and driving them to resolution. Responsibilities will also include advance problem management and system performance tuning.

The job requires SAP Basis knowledge for the SAP Netweaver stack (6.40, 7.00 and 7.01 Basis level), LiveCache, TREX, Java, XI/PI, Solution Manager as well as Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server knowledge. This environment also includes bolt-on applications like Tidal Job Scheduler, Vertex Tax Calculation, Esker Faxing, GRC Access control.

This position requires excellent cross-group collaboration skills including excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to organize and coordinate many deliverables at any given time, close attention to detail, and strong communication skills.

Job Responsibilities:

Provided technical support for existing SAP systems and bolt-on applications including: patching (SAP Transport management, SPAU/SAINT, SAP kernel, SQL Server, Windows Server). SAP system and bolt-on application trouble shooting and researching, performance analysis, tracing and debugging where applicable.

Perform incident management and analysis for the SAP Systems and bolt-on applications

Problem analysis: Leads investigations of problems by using standard and custom problem management tools and processes.

Project management for IT-discretionary projects (including server builds, and application of Security patches)

Implementation Planning and Coordination: Develops or contributes to creating an implementation, validation, and rollback plan, resulting in clear roles, dependencies and relationships of resources, enabling effective transition to operations

Contribute to Microsoft’s internal SAP knowledge base articles

Develop strong collaborative relationships with peer teams interfacing with SAP Basis as well as SAP Basis team in India.

Must be able to effectively communicate technical problems in a non-technical manner.

Work independently within established guidelines and procedures

Extended coverage outside of normal work hours may be required.

Deliver excellent service and support to internal customers and partners. Position will be responsible for monitoring progress against service level agreements.

Position is responsible for ensuring each reported problems are resolved in a timely manner, tracked according to standards, and escalated problems are resolved as appropriate. Excellent Problem Analysis and troubleshooting skills are required.

Solving high complexity issues, and communicating problem resolution and additional information to management, executive leadership, customer groups, project teams and other IT support groups.

Qualifications include:

This position requires strong communication skills and a passion for technology. Candidates must function well in a team environment. Candidates need to be organized with a proven ability to make the correct decisions under pressure. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are required. Candidates must be able to troubleshoot and the ability to analyze complex problems quickly is a MUST for this position. Strong expertise in SAP Basis area (SAP version 6.0 preferred), including ERP, GTS, BI, SCM, Solution Manager and others.

Requirements:

A minimum 2 to 4 years of demonstrated work experience supporting large-scale SAP installations (ERP, Global Trade, E-Recruiting, etc.), Windows 2003/2008 Server, SQL Server 2000-2008, and Internet Information Server (IIS5-6 and 7), in a large scale operations/production environment

Should have a BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related discipline or equivalent work experience, MCSE, CCNA preferred.

Interested candidates can reach me at 571 255 5910 or can mail me on sreedharn@amititech. com