Opportunity exists for a SAP Basis Consultant in Cape Town (12 month contract).
Salary = R 60 000 – R 70 000 p/m

• Assists in supporting, maintaining and designing databases and the applications running on them, including configuration of IIS instances.
• Contributes during application design to meet application and database system storage and performance requirements.
• Configuration, tuning and troubleshooting of the databases.
• Monitoring of databases using the approved monitoring system.
• Troubleshooting database outages, with regular feedback to stakeholders.
• Planning for storage, archiving, backup and recovery of databases.
• Participate in maintenance weekend work.
• Annual testing of recovery procedures.
• Patching of applications, servers and databases.
• Providing support for non-ERP applications.
• Manage non-ERP application upgrades.
• Works and interacts with IT project managers, developers and support staff.
Documentation:
• Assists with writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures, workflows, diagrams, etc.
• Assists with writing application documentation, including data standards, procedures, workflows, diagrams, etc.
Quality Management:
• Monitors database performance and makes recommendations.
• May communicate regularly with technical, applications, and operational staff, to ensure database integrity and security.
• Execute standard operating procedures.
• Applies industry best practices to configuration of the databases.
Qualifications / experience:
• At least 5 years as a SAP Basis Consultant.
• SQL DBA & Oracle DBA experience beneficial.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft IIS services.
• Working experience supporting application business applications