SAP Basis Specialist

Location: Lisbon, Portugal. Hybrid working model combining onsite and offsite work.

Company

hirify.global develops aerospace, defence, space, helicopter, and connected-service solutions. hirify.global Global Business Services supports the standardisation, harmonisation, digitalisation, and automation of end-to-end business processes.

What you will do

• Manage the SAP platform lifecycle, monitoring, performance analysis, load balancing, archiving, and resource optimisation.
• Deploy security guidelines covering SSO, parameters, SAP Notes, SFTP, encryption, and related controls.
• Manage incidents, root-cause analyses, improvement plans, and critical P1/P2 production outages.
• Coordinate system refreshes, upgrades, kernel patches, Support Package stacks, and SPAU/SPDD activities.
• Support transports and projects through ChaRM, OSS calls, ALE, workflows, dumps, interfaces, and job scheduling.
• Contribute to SAP landscape sizing, architecture, integrations, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Basis and NetWeaver system administration.
• Experience coordinating external Managed Service Providers, tracking SLA/KPI compliance, validating technical change requests, and orchestrating maintenance windows, project cutovers, and incident escalations.
• Advanced SAP HANA administration, including performance tuning, backup and recovery, memory management, and HANA System Replication.
• Deep technical knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and legacy SAP ECC 6.0 landscapes.
• Experience coordinating upgrades, kernel patches, Support Package stacks, QA/Dev system refreshes, and advanced TMS configuration.
• Experience monitoring SAP performance, identifying bottlenecks, implementing optimisation strategies, and ensuring high availability and responsiveness.
• Experience implementing security policies and meeting internal and external audit requirements.
• Experience leading troubleshooting for critical production outages, performance bottlenecks, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience developing automation scripts and tools, contributing to system landscape design, maintaining technical documentation, and mentoring junior team members.

Culture & Benefits

• Multicultural environment with a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture.
• Learning opportunities through digital solutions, classroom sessions, certified training, and global career development.
• Modern office with good public-transport connections.
• Structured onboarding and a balanced work-life environment with flexible working arrangements where possible.
• Permanent employment with hirify.global Portugal.