About this SAP HANA Database Administrator role at Weekday AI
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Experience: 6+ yrs
Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka, NCR, Telangana, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai
Job Type: Full-time
We are looking for an experiencedย SAP HANA Database Administratorย to manage, maintain, monitor, and support SAP HANA database environments across production and non-production landscapes. The role requires strong expertise inย SAP HANA administration, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, performance management, installation, upgrades, and production support.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing critical database environments, resolving complex technical incidents, supporting maintenance activities, and collaborating with global teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of HANA systems.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and supportย SAP HANA databasesย across production and non-production environments.
- Perform HANA installation, configuration, instance administration, patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
- Manageย HANA 2.0 MDC and Non-MDC environments.
- Monitor database health, system alerts, availability, resource utilisation, and overall system performance.
- Troubleshoot database issues using HANA administration tools, HANA Studio, logs, traces, and OS-level commands.
- Manageย HANA backup, restore, recovery, and point-in-time recoveryย activities.
- Work withย Backint and traditional backup methodsย and ensure backup processes are reliable and recoverable.
- Perform database restart, recovery, and troubleshooting activities during planned and unplanned events.
- Monitor and troubleshootย CPU, memory, storage, and database performanceย issues.
- Perform HANA performance tuning and analyse system behaviour to identify bottlenecks.
- Manage HANA users, licenses, audit logs, parameters, traces, and related administration activities.
- Handleย P1/P2 incidents, production outages, and critical database issuesย within defined service levels.
- Perform root-cause analysis and document corrective and preventive actions for recurring issues.
- Manage technical incidents, service requests, change requests, and problem-management activities.
- Supportย High Availability, Disaster Recovery, migration, and infrastructure-related activitiesย where required.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, SAP, application, security, and other technical teams to resolve cross-functional issues.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting knowledge articles.
- Participate in knowledge-transfer sessions and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support global shift operations and takeย shift lead responsibilitiesย when required.
- Follow established security, compliance, change-management, and operational procedures.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 6+ years of hands-on experienceย in SAP HANA Database Administration.
- Strong understanding ofย SAP HANA database architecture and administration.
- Proven experience withย HANA 2.0 MDC and Non-MDC environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with HANA installation, upgrades, patching, configuration, and instance administration.
- Strong knowledge ofย backup, restore, recovery, and point-in-time recovery.
- Experience withย Backint and traditional HANA backup methods.
- Strong troubleshooting skills using HANA Studio, database tools, logs, traces, andย Linux/OS-level commands.
- Good understanding of HANA monitoring, alerts, system health checks, and operational support.
- Strong knowledge ofย HANA performance tuning, including CPU and memory troubleshooting.
- Experience managing HANA users, licenses, audit logs, parameters, and trace configurations.
- Basic to good knowledge ofย Linux operating systems.
- Proven experience handlingย P1/P2 incidents, production outages, and critical database issues.
- Understanding ofย High Availability and Disaster Recoveryย concepts is an advantage.
- Experience supporting technical migrations and database maintenance activities is desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform effective root-cause analysis.
- Excellent communication and customer-handling skills.
- Ability to work effectively withย global, cross-functional, and distributed technical teams.
- Strong documentation, knowledge-transfer, and operational discipline.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and perform effectively in shift-based production support environments.