SAP S/4HANA Consultant (SC Cleared)
1 day ago
Gloucester
Location: Bristol, UK (Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite) Contract Length: 6 Months (Extension Likely) Day Rate: 500 - 550 per day (Inside IR35) Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required We are seeking an experienced SC Cleared SAP S/4HANA Technical Consultant / SAP Basis Consultant to join a major transformation programme delivering SAP S/4HANA within a secure environment. This is a hands‑on technical role requiring strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA system provisioning, installation, landscape management, HANA database administration, and system lifecycle activities. The successful consultant will play a key role in building and maintaining SAP environments hosted on a hyperscaler platform, with AWS experience highly desirable. • Lead SAP S/4HANA system provisioning and landscape setup activities., • Perform initial SAP S/4HANA system builds within AWS and other cloud environments., • Execute SAP S/4HANA installations, configuration, and technical setup., • Manage SAP kernel installations, upgrades, and patching activities., • Configure clients, transports, RFC connections, and logical systems., • Support SAP S/4HANA release upgrades, FPS implementations, and Support Package management., • Participate in performance testing, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) exercises., • Administer SAP HANA databases, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and stability., • Implement backup, recovery, monitoring, and housekeeping processes., • Support environment refreshes and landscape maintenance activities., • Work closely with project teams, infrastructure teams, and SAP functional consultants throughout the programme lifecycle., • Strong hands‑on experience with SAP S/4HANA system provisioning and landscape setup., • Experience delivering initial SAP S/4HANA builds on hyperscaler platforms, preferably AWS., • Expertise in:, • SAP S/4HANA installation, • Kernel installation and patching, • Client setup and configuration, • Transport management, • RFC configuration, • Logical system configuration, • Experience with:, • S/4HANA release upgrades, • Feature Pack Stack (FPS) implementations, • Support Package Stack management, • Hands‑on HANA database administration experience including:, • Initial sizing and setup, • Backup and recovery configuration, • Performance monitoring, • Database housekeeping, • Point‑in‑time recovery Strong understanding of SAP landscape architecture including: • SAP S/4HANA sizing and capacity planning, • DEV, QAS, PRE-PROD and PROD environment management, • Client strategy and refresh processes, • Backup and recovery planning, • SAP logging and monitoring, • High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts, • Active SC Clearance is mandatory., • Ability to work onsite in Bristol 3 days per week., • Strong stakeholder engagement and documentation skills., • Experience working within large-scale enterprise SAP transformation programmes. #J-18808-Ljbffr