Sap basis administrator Jobs in Old toronto, ON

We are Systematix and we are looking for a Senior SAP BASIS Administrator to fill a 1 year contract (with 2 renewal options of 6 months each) with one of our National Media Clients in their Toronto, Ottawa, or Montreal offices. Please note, periodic travel (1-4 days / month) between Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa is required.

Project Description

The SAP Basis Administrator for SAP solutions role’s responsibilities include configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis as well as scheduling and executing the SAP transport system. Additionally, this role is responsible for the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP systems. Within this role, you must have excellent SAP development skills, business and technical analytical skills and a customer focus.

As part of the various projects or on-going operations in which you will be involved, you will be responsible for properly documenting requests or issues, coordinate and lead the development on the resolution or options analysis, develop and test the chosen options and monitor the deployment into the production system.

Activities

The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the following components :

• Implementing and maintaining multiple SAP instances : SAP ECC 6.0 Core system administration including other SAP solutions like SRM, Portal, BW & GRC. Good understanding of integration / installation of 3rd party products.
• Solution Manager administration / management
• Introduce technical changes in the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
• Developing and maintaining system documentation for all SAP instances and collaboration with ABAP development team in helping with relevant SAP Interfaces documentation.
• Coordinating the management and maintenance of the systems
• Maintaining the integrity of the SAP landscape by managing the SAP CTS to ensure all relevant SAP transports are promoted properly.
• Monitoring SAP systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, dev traces, disk space).
• Working with other T&I teams / colleagues like SysOps & DBA to coordinate and plan proper maintenance for OS & DB related patching needs.
• Collect, document and review requirements into technical design documents based on a full understanding of the functionality required.
• Prepare feasibility studies for new technologies, or for optimization of development areas, including detailed estimation.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades. Research and propose options and resolutions to issues or enhancements in line with SAP best practice.
• Review SAP Hotnews and security notes, document analysis and apply wherever applicable
• Review, plan and apply SAP notes and support packs (Also, provide side effect reports where applicable)
• Review OS and DB patches application impact to application and coordinate with OS / DB team for these patch implementations if applicable
• Work collaboratively with the functional and ABAP teams and other T&I teams(Network, IDM, SysOps, DBA, Etc.).
• Identify needs for upgrading or enhancements where current technical capacity does not meet client requirements based on recurring issues or future needs.
• Develop technical test plans and test strategy for unit testing.
• Develop integration strategies and approaches in collaboration with other groups and partners.
• Participate and provide feedback in Lessons Learned sessions.
• Design, test and deploy solutions and apply industry best practices in doing so.
• Keep abreast of new and upcoming functionality within the supported applications.
• Provide estimates based on requirements (also required on a ticket by ticket basis)
• Provide input into project activities and project plans
• Development / testing / deployment strategies for supporting our users needs for SAP’s SAPGUI UI.
• Fine tuning performance and troubleshooting problems.
• Installation and configuring of all SAP Systems and applications.
• Support our Backup / restore strategies for all of our SAP Systems.
• Managing and building security roles and user management in our SAP environments.

Service Requirements – Qualifications

To fulfill this role, the SAP Basis Administrator must have the following qualifications :