SAP BASIS Administrator

Salary: £50,000 - 62,000 per year

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 43 week of 2026