SAP Infrastructure Leader Full Time

About Vibrantz Technologies

Vibrantz Technologies (“Vibrantz” or “Company”) is a leading global provider of specialty chemicals and materials solutions whose purpose is to bring color, performance and vibrancy to life. Every day, our employees, the products we make, and our valued customer partnerships are inspired by this purpose. Serving customers globally, our innovations are trusted in a variety of advanced materials, color solutions and performance coatings applications to enhance the hue, functionality, safety and environmental footprint of everyday consumer products. Our key competencies in particle engineering, glass and ceramic science and color technology enable benefits like more durable vehicles and batteries, easier-to-clean appliances, energy efficient roof tiles and bricks, stronger and more decorative glass, and eco-friendly paints. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Vibrantz has over 60 manufacturing facilities and sales offices on six continents and employs roughly 4,000 individuals. We are building a strong, shared culture that is rooted strongly in our six core values that focus on safety, our people, customers, excellence in all we do, environmental stewardship, and integrity, ethics, and trust. And we are intent upon fostering a workplace that engages employees’ heads, hands and – uniquely – their hearts.

Vibrantz is owned by American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm that invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenue generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion and/or $50 million to $200 million of EBITDA. American Securities and its affiliates have approximately $23 billion under management and are based in New York with an office in Shanghai.

For more information, please visit www.vibrantz.com and www.american-securities.com.

Position Summary
SAP Infrastructure Leader will be responsible for the end to end ownership of the SAP Architecture. The role includes implementation, deployment, support and administration SAP and integrated systems. This individual will be using manual actions and a wide variety of automation tools to perform the job. The individual will be responsible for developing and documenting application landscapes, policies, procedures, standards, and templates for system administration tasks as well as for implementing projects. Will own issue resolution and troubleshooting for multiple environments and applications. Pro-actively put procedures in place to prevent and reduce the severity of outages.
Participate in production support activities and work to resolve technical issues with technical know-how with clear communications and root cause analysis. The role will also work and support the offshore SAP Basis Administrators to support SAP operations.

Location: Hybrid or Remote (preferably resides in Houston or Cleveland)

Job responsibilities
SAP Database Maintenance and Support

• Work collaboratively with various application management and project teams.
• Responsible for the implementation, service level and life-cycle management of Enterprise Solutions’ Portfolio of SAP and non-SAP Applications.
• Responsible for the entire application landscape of multiple applications including maintaining the development and quality assurance environments.
• Enforce company change control policies, patch management and information security standards and procedures.
• Manage and maintain our SAP systems, including SAP S/4HANA 2022, GRC, GTS, MII, APO, SCM, SAP R3, ECC and ancillary systems ensuring high availability, scalability, and optimal performance.
• Establish database High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) Support Package Stack (SPS) SAP
• Regularly check for security updates and collaborate with SAP to apply the patches
• Supervise HANA database replication to primary and secondary Disaster Recovery (DR) sites
• Work with SAP to ensure full, incremental, and log backups of the database is performed
• Perform HANA database upgrades and patches, as required in coordination with SAP
• Monitor HANA database performance and adjust configuration parameters
• Maintain HANA database transport landscape, including: Creating virtual HANA host names in Domain Name System (DNS), adding Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTPs) web dispatcher entries, using virtual host names for HANA application lifecycle management
• Ensure correct installation of HANA systems and perform routine maintenance to keep the database in optimal condition
• Provide recommendations for necessary hardware, operating system, and database updates, as needed
• Central database administration with DBA Cockpit

SAP OS Maintenance and Support

• General OS administration and troubleshooting
• OS level User and access management
• Filesystem administration

SAP S4 HANA Conversion, Implementation and Support

• Strong knowledge and experience in S4 HANA readiness check on existing ECC landscape, including custom code remediation prior to conversion
• Design strategy for preparing existing SAP addons and third-party addons for S4 HANA conversion
• Expertise in maintenance planner for calculating S4 HANA conversion patches and dependencies
• Provide regular operational support for S4 HANA system post-migration
• Experience in at least two end-to-end S4 HANA implementation or conversion projects
• Experience in integrating S4 HANA system with GRC and Business Warehouse
• Implement and maintain custom code lifecycle management module for ABAP system landscapes to improve governance and streamline upgrades and patches

Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Apply performance monitoring mechanisms using SAP best practices
• Understand the object and version level of details on SAP objects to troubleshoot and identify appropriate functional and technical teams for further analysis
• Analyze EWA reports and implement performance optimization measures based on the findings
• Monitor and troubleshoot long-running background jobs
• Optimize expensive Structured Query Language (SQL) statements by identifying and collaborating with the Application team

SAP Systems Refreshes, Client Copies, Application Upgrades and Patches

• Perform SAP client copies and system refreshes as part of quarterly schedules in collaboration with SAP
• Implement SAP Landscape Management (LAMA) to optimize SAP client copies and post-refresh tasks

Team Management

• This position is responsible for leading a team of Basis administrators to effectively deliver the ongoing maintenance while also supporting the application teams with the development of enhancements to Vibrantz’s SAP landscape
• This position will be responsible for the managing an existing team of two (2) Basis administrators that are responsible for the 24×7 ongoing maintenance/support while assisting with the delivery of current corporate projects
• Provide leadership and technical direction to team members and consultants

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or similar preferred.
• 10+ years of SAP Basis Administration experience with several SAP versions (such as SAP S/4 HANA, ECC, FIORI, GRC), ideally on the SAP S4 HANA platform.)
• Experience and knowledge about SAP architecture and landscape
• Installation, upgrades, and migration experience
• Practical security & authorization knowledge
• Good OS level & DB administration skills
• Very good orientation in SAP products & platform
• Technical issues resolving skills (in cooperation with SAP and other technical teams)
• Performance & high data volumes aspects knowledge in administration area
• Strong scoping/estimation, problem solving, troubleshooting and technical experience with the ability to root cause application issues.
• Expertise delivering across all phases of delivery: requirements gathering, assessment, design, configuration, testing, cutover, and support.
• Work remotely with the tools which facilitate collaboration and ability to travel to office when needed for connecting with the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP S/4 HANA certification is preferred
• Knowledge on storage infrastructure and setup for HANA.
• Experience performing deep troubleshooting, archiving, partitioning and infrastructure setup.
• Willingness and ability to learn, execute proof of concept of new solutions like BTP, AI/ML and innovations.
• Fluent in English, including excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The capability to plan for and manage small remote teams.

Location

Houston, TX
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