About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 62,000 per year
Requirements
- Eligible for Security Clearance (SC).
- 2–4 years experience in an SAP BASIS or SAP technical administration role.
- Strong understanding of SAP BASIS fundamentals.
- Exposure to SAP HANA environments, operationally or through project work.
- Experience supporting SAP upgrades, patching, or system migrations.
- Familiarity with Linux-based SAP environments.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and a proactive learning mindset.
- Experience working within ITIL-based service environments.
- Desirable: experience supporting ECC to S/4HANA migrations.
- Desirable: exposure to SAP HANA performance tuning or platform optimisation.
- Desirable: experience working with SAP delivery partners or system integrators.
- Desirable: interest in developing skills in automation, scripting, or modern SAP architectures.
- Desirable: SAP or infrastructure certifications.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day SAP BASIS administration across the SAP landscape.
- Support SAP HANA platform operations, including monitoring, health checks, and performance analysis.
- Assist with the ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA migration, upgrades, and landscape transformation activities.
- Administer transports, system refreshes, client copies, and landscape coordination.
- Support patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities across SAP systems.
- Perform user administration, roles, and authorisations, ensuring security and compliance.
- Monitor system availability, capacity, and performance, escalating complex issues where required.
- Support backup, recovery, and high availability processes for SAP and HANA platforms.
- Work with senior BASIS colleagues and third-party SAP specialists on platform improvements.
- Operate within ITIL-aligned service, incident, and change management processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Technologies
- Support
- ITIL
- Linux
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP
- Security
- Network
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We are recruiting an SAP BASIS Administrator for our clients Enterprise Systems team in Birmingham. The role offers a salary of £50,000–£62,000 and follows a hybrid working pattern, with two to three days on-site each week. Our client is migrating from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and modernising its SAP landscape and data platform. This position offers a structured pathway towards SAP HANA Data Platform specialism, with hands-on experience in an active migration programme, collaboration with senior SAP BASIS professionals, support from an established third-party SAP partner, and funded SAP training and certifications. The role also provides exposure to SAP HANA administration, platform optimisation, and modern SAP architecture.
last updated 44 week of 2026