Senior SAP Basis Administrator – Los Angeles

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior SAP Basis Administrator to manage and optimize our enterprise SAP landscape in the Los Angeles area. You will work closely with IT and business teams to ensure high‑availability, performance, and security of SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA and related environments.

Key responsibilities

• Administer, monitor and support SAP environments, including installations, upgrades, patches, system copies and migrations.
• Lead cloud transformation projects such as RISE with SAP and manage cloud‑hosted SAP instances.
• Maintain SAP HANA databases – performance tuning, backup, recovery and optimization.
• Support Windows Server and SQL database infrastructure that underpins SAP systems.
• Handle SAP security, user access, transport management and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application and business teams on projects and operational improvements.
• Participate in disaster‑recovery, high‑availability and business continuity planning.
• Provide on‑call support and resolve production incidents.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of SAP Basis administration in large enterprise environments.
• Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA and SAP Basis architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP upgrades, migrations, system copies and patch management.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and SQL database administration.

Required skills

• SAP Basis
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP HANA
• Windows Server
• SQL databases
• SAP transport management
• SAP security and user administration
• RISE with SAP (cloud SAP)
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) integration
• Performance tuning and system monitoring
• Backup, recovery and disaster‑recovery planning