Senior SAP Technical Consultant – SAP Basis, HANA, Azure/AWS

About the role

We are seeking a Senior SAP Technical Consultant to join our global IT team in Johannesburg. The role focuses on the technical administration, monitoring and optimisation of SAP landscapes, including SAP Basis, SAP HANA and cloud‑based environments.

Key responsibilities

• Administer, monitor and maintain SAP systems across development, integration and production environments.
• Provide 2nd‑level support, analysing logs, dumps and traces to resolve incidents.
• Plan and execute system upgrades, patches, kernel updates and database maintenance.
• Manage SAP transport routes and ensure compliance with change‑control and release‑management processes.
• Perform health checks, performance analysis and capacity planning for SAP HANA and Oracle databases.
• Support SAP workloads on Linux/Unix platforms and coordinate migrations to Azure or AWS.
• Collaborate with functional, development, operations and release teams to ensure smooth go‑lives.
• Participate in after‑hours on‑call rotation as required.

Required profile

• Minimum 6 years of hands‑on SAP Basis experience.
• Proven ability to work independently and solve complex technical problems.
• Strong collaboration skills with functional, development and operations teams.

Required skills

• SAP Basis administration
• SAP HANA
• Oracle database
• Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms
• PaaS and IaaS concepts
• SUSE Linux / Linux / Unix
• SAP transport management
• Change control and release management processes