Job Title: SAP BASIS Administrator
Organization: Umeme
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: IT
Infrastructure Manager
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.
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:
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: [email protected].
qualified and interested candidates should first fill out their application
forms online, Click
Here and thereafter send their updated CVs
to: [email protected].
Deadline: 22nd June 2018 by 5:00 PM
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