Senior SAP BASIS Systems Administrator (Java; Portal XI/PI)Possible locations:
Amgen's headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, or at Amgen's sites in Boulder, Colorado or Breda in the Netherlands.
An experienced hands-on SAP Basis Administrator who has over 8 years of BASIS experience with emphasis in configuration, analysis, and troubleshooting in Netweaver 2004 and Netweaver 2004S systems. As part of IS Shared Services organization, lead the design and oversee development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. Provide technical and process leadership while partnering with client-facing IS team to drive the tactical delivery of application solutions. Integrate systems across Amgen infrastructure and services. Sets guidelines based on existing SOPs and standards as to the proper use of application development and integration patterns. Partner with architects, business analysts, system administrators, information security, project managers and other parts of internal solutions delivery and support teams as well as business partners to implement complex solutions. Provide focused consulting services on projects and govern compliance of those projects with architecture standards and roadmaps while ensuring that the design and development teams remain compliant with evolving enterprise standards.
• Identify risks and mitigations with project manager and technical team
• Understand scope and high level requirements and lead the solution elaboration and implementation
• Guide project team on elaborating significant architecture risks
• Participate in requirements solicitation to better understand system requirements
• Own System Design Specification (SDS)/System Detailed Design Specification (SDDS), with input and support from an architect and technical team, coordinating SDS/SDDS review and approval
• Coordinate implementation activities and issue resolution for system deployment
• Own Installation Qualification (IQ) process and documentation, with input and support from technical team, coordinating IQ review, approval and execution
• Coordinate technical knowledge transfer with application support for post-go-live support
• Occasionally involve in custom/interface development work on projects that require deep technical knowledge and skills (e.g. performance monitoring, early stage prototyping)
• Experience in installation, configuration, and maintenance of various SAP systems (ECC/GTS/SRM/BW/SCM/PI/EP/SolMan) in WINDOWS / SQL Server environment
• Manage and support multiple SAP landscapes
• Assist in the planning, designing and architecture of SAP systems
• Maintenance of multi-landscape environments through client copies, system refreshes, and transport management
• SAP profile parameter changes, workload analysis, system error analysis and establishment of standard BASIS background jobs, system health checks, and monitoring
• Impact analysis of new SAP releases to current system landscape environments
• Analysis of system performance, database performance, system health checks and implementation of tuning improvements
• Evaluate and apply SAP kernel patches and support packs
• Perform system upgrades
• Perform client and system copies;
• Develop client and landscape strategies and batch scheduling
• Troubleshooting of ABAP and Java stacks; Work with SAP in resolving the issues
• Java Export and imports
Basic Qualifications
•Doctorate degree
OR
•Master's degree & 3 years of directly related experience
OR
•Bachelor's degree & 5 years of directly related experience
OR
•Associate's degree & 10 years of directly related experience
OR
•High school diploma / GED & 12 years of directly related experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Eight or more years of hands-on SAP Basis Administration
• Desire to continuously learn and take on new challenges with little oversight
• Experience Installing, Configuring, Performance Tuning, Patching and Upgrading SAP NetWeaver (6.40, 7.x)
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems as well as provide root cause analysis
• Extensive experience with Windows 2003 and 2008 Server as well as Microsoft SQL Server
• Prior ownership of different SAP Usage Types (e.g., ECC, BW, XP/PI, Enterprise Portal, Solution Manager, APO)
• Experience performing SAP System Refreshes and System Copies
• Knowledge of web technologies, including web and application servers as well as some development experience (e.g., IIS, Apache, Weblogic, HTML, JSP)
• Knowledge of SAP Java Transports using CMS, CTS or CTS+
• Experience configuring and supporting System Landscape Directory, configuring Data Providers and creating Business Systems and
• Familiarity with highly available systems and services (e.g., Load Balancing, Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance)
• Experience implementing Single Sign-On using Kerberos, SiteMinder or HTTP Headers
• Working knowledge of public key encryption using PGP
• Prior experience supporting EDI systems (e.g., Gentran Integration Suite, Sterling Integrator, Seeburger)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly document operating procedures
• Prior experience in a rigid change management environment
• Familiarity with GxP, Sarbanes Oxley and Validated Computer Systems
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