SAP Basis – Migration Specialist

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

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🖥️ SAP Consultant

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AM53 Smart Solutions

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

AM53 Smart Solutions is a consultancy and solutions provider focused on optimizing processes and productivity for the payments market. The company offers technical and business analysis, Business Intelligence strategy and implementation, custom application development, and specialized services around Verifone PAYware CMS (issuance and acquiring). AM53 also provides HR recruitment services for technology professionals and delivers integration products and connectors for payment systems.

📋 Description

• Execute S/4HANA conversions and migrations • Perform readiness checks, CVI, and SDM/SDNI processes • Adapt custom code and validate compatibility • Execute DMO with SUM for migrations and conversions to HANA and Cloud • Perform classical OS/DB heterogeneous migrations, system copies, and landscape refreshes • Execute end-to-end kernel upgrades and distribute files across instances • Manage kernel files, ownership, permissions, and sticky bits • Execute the full SUM lifecycle, including downtime and shadow instance activities • Perform SPDD/SPAU adjustments • Troubleshoot upgrade issues, incomplete transports, open updates, and phase failures • Optimize downtime during migration cycles • Install and maintain SAP add-ons through SPAM • Handle PBS software components and TOCs for transport management • Analyze work processes using SM50/SM66 and dpmon • Perform trace/debug activities, lock analysis, and performance troubleshooting • Recover systems involving open updates and manage downtime • Troubleshoot ABAP/Java stack startup, UME database connectivity, and database issues • Develop and maintain Shell and Python automation scripts for upgrades, monitoring, and routine tasks • Build repeatable processes to reduce manual intervention • Serve as the L3 final escalation point for complex incidents • Conduct root cause analysis and system recovery

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced English is mandatory (global communication) • Strong practical, hands-on expertise in SAP migrations to S/4HANA and upgrades; coordination or theoretical profiles are not sufficient • Up to 12 years of SAP Basis experience, or equivalent career level • Experience executing readiness checks, CVI, and SDM/SDNI processes • Experience with custom code adaptation and compatibility validation • Understanding of ECC versus S/4HANA architecture differences and in-memory computing impact • Hands-on experience with RISE with SAP architectural models, ECS operational procedures, and Cloud Managed Services governance • Experience executing DMO with SUM for direct migrations/conversions to HANA and Cloud • Hands-on experience with classical OS/DB heterogeneous migrations, system copies, and landscape refreshes • Experience with end-to-end kernel upgrades and file distribution across instances • Understanding of DB-dependent versus independent files, patching, and hotfixes • Knowledge of kernel file management, including disp+work ownership, permissions, and sticky bits configuration • Full lifecycle knowledge of SUM, including phases, downtime, and shadow instance • Hands-on experience with SPDD/SPAU adjustments • Ability to troubleshoot upgrade issues, including incomplete transports and open update resolution • Knowledge of downtime optimization strategies and troubleshooting phase failures during migration cycles • Experience installing and maintaining SAP add-ons via SPAM (SAP Patch Manager) • Understanding of PBS (Protected Business System/software components) • Experience handling TOC (Transport of Copies) for transport management • Knowledge of SPDD/SPAU behavior during add-on installations and differences from upgrade scenarios • SAP system administration expertise, including work process analysis using SM50/SM66 and OS tools such as dpmon • Trace/debug experience at work process level • Lock analysis using SM12 and performance troubleshooting • Experience with system recovery involving open updates and downtime management • Knowledge of ABAP and Java stacks and dual-stack dependencies, including startup order and schema users • Knowledge of UME database connectivity using R3trans, DBACOCKPIT, and HANA Studio • Ability to troubleshoot system startup and database issues • Development and maintenance of automation scripts using Shell and Python • Experience automating upgrades, monitoring, and routine tasks • Ability to build repeatable processes that reduce manual intervention • Experience handling critical incidents as an L3 final escalation point • Root cause analysis and system recovery capability

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Global communication exposure • Opportunity to work with RISE with SAP, Cloud Managed Services, S/4HANA migrations, upgrades, and complex L3 incidents