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Discovery Limited is a major South African financial services company that operates in the healthcare, life and short-term insurance, banking, savings, and wellness markets.
About Discovery Limited
Discovery Limited is a major South African financial services company that operates in the healthcare, life and short-term insurance, banking, savings, and wellness markets
. It is publicly traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) under the ticker symbol DSY. Discovery aims to improve health and protect lives. Their business model, “Shared-value Insurance,” uses behavioral science to reward clients for healthy living, safe driving, and good financial habits.
Job Purpose
- The SAP Basis Consultant is responsible for the management of the SAP environment, this includes the underlying SAP database systems, for both HANA and Microsoft SQL. The incumbent is responsible for configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis.
Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to
- Provide daily support to production support teams and End-Users with any incidents, requests, technical and performance problems
- Implements and maintains the multiple SAP systems that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training and production).
- Identify issues and problems with SAP systems and implement solutions to optimize the SAP environments.
- Maintains the integrity of the SAP environment by managing the SAP Change and Transport System (CTS) to
- ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly.
- Introduces technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
- Designs and implements optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
- Installs and configures all required SAP database servers and application servers.
- Distributes the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workload.
- Maintains SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
- Administers the SAP Solution Manager systems within the Bank.
- Performs SAP client administration (create client, copy client, delete client, export/import client) as required.
- Develops and maintains system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
- Provide support for Disaster Recovery and DR testing as required
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) or equivalent technical work experience.
- 6 years of experience in SAP database administration, with prior experience with SAP R/3 and HANA in a Linux (preferably RHEL) environment.
- 6 plus years’ experience in SAP Basis,
- A vast knowledge and background in SAP high availability infrastructure and design.
- Knowledge in running SAP HANA database systems.
- Knowledge in running SAP HANA databases on RHEL clusters.
- Knowledge is configuring and administrating SAP HANA database High Availability solutions
- Knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
- Knowledge in running SAP on Microsoft SQL database environments.
- Knowledge in running SAP on VMware.
- Knowledge in running SAP Lifecycle management processes using SAP solution Manager.
Technical Skills or Knowledge
- Linux, Windows, SAP NetWeaver, HANA, Networks, VMware
- A completion of at least 4 implementation projects.
- Supported at least 4 upgrade projects, for Both SAP ABAP and JAVA systems.
To apply for this job please visit careers.discovery.co.za.
