SAP S/4HANA Technical Consultant / SAP Basis Consultant (SC Cleared)
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
Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Essential Skills & Experience
SAP S/4HANA & SAP Basis
- 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
SAP HANA Database Administration
- Hands-on HANA database administration experience including:
- Initial sizing and setup
- Backup and recovery configuration
- Performance monitoring
- Database housekeeping
- Point-in-time recovery
SAP Landscape Management
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
Requirements
- 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.
