Senior SAP Basis Administrator, Kuiper

Project Kuiper Sap Basis Administrator

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

The ideal candidate will lead the team providing the tools and systems needed to design, build, and operate the organization's services. Candidate will be responsible for owning and managing the infrastructure critical to Project Kuiper including engineering applications, AWS Cloud Infrastructure, and local servers.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Monitor system performance, ensuring uptime, scalability, and reliability of applications and infrastructure.
• Analyze current infrastructure capacity and forecast future needs to support organizational growth.
• Day to day support of existing SAP S/4, MES MII, GTS, PO, HANA DB and other SAP applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Perform basis administrator configuration activities for new enhancement requests from business and support teams.
• Perform SAP application installations and upgrades, patching activities including OS and DB level.
• Setup and enhance system monitoring and alert mechanisms to ensure health of the system.
• Work support tickets from end users and product owners.
• Troubleshoot issues with jobs scheduling, transport management, and printer administration.
• Perform system refresh, transport management, OSS notes validations and installation.
• Enhance and support HA and DR solutions.
• Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks for all infrastructure and networking components.
• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum development processes, contributing to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on test progress, issues, and resolutions.

A day in the life as an SAP Basis administrator involves a wide range of activities crucial for maintaining the SAP system infrastructure. Throughout the day, you might find yourself applying security patches, troubleshooting performance issues, planning system upgrades, or performing database maintenance tasks. Additionally, you'll need to balance a mix of proactive maintenance and reactive problem-solving, all while keeping the SAP landscape running efficiently and securely.