SAP Basis Administrator Journey

Title:

SAP Basis Administrator Journey

Department:
Enterprise Systems

Location:

Sacramento, CA, US,

Category:
Information Technology/Telecommunications

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Civil Service

09/04/2026

Open

This is a hybrid position with a minimum of three days in-office required.

This position is responsible for the architecture, administration, security, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of the SAP technical landscape across both on-premises and cloud environments. The role is critical to ensuring the SAP environment remains resilient, scalable, and aligned with broader digital transformation goals as the organization advances its migration to SAP S/4

HANA.

This role is ideal for a seasoned SAP Basis professional who has evolved with SAP's modern technology stack. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in traditional SAP Basis administration while also demonstrating strong hands-on experience with SAP S/4

HANA, RISE with SAP, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Integration Suite, cloud-native and hybrid SAP environments, identity management, middleware, and connectivity solutions. This individual will serve as a technical architect, subject matter expert, and trusted advisor, partnering with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Development, Functional SAP teams, vendors, and implementation partners to design, build, secure, and support a modern SAP platform. This role also supports governance, compliance, disaster recovery, operational resilience, knowledge transfer, and long-term internal capability building.

• Administer, maintain, and support enterprise SAP environments across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms. Perform advanced SAP Basis administration, including monitoring, performance tuning, transports, patching, upgrades, refreshes, client copies, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Support SAP S/4
  
  HANA transition activities and serve as a primary technical resource for SAP RISE, including customer-managed responsibilities, ECS coordination, maintenance planning, release support, service requests, and issue resolution
• Provide architecture, administration, and governance support for SAP BTP and hybrid platform design, including accounts, subaccounts, entitlements, connectivity, trust configuration, tenant strategy, standards, and best practices supporting digital transformation
• Administer and support SAP BTP services and SAP Integration Suite components to enable secure, scalable integration across SAP and enterprise platforms, including middleware, API management, event-driven services, and related connectivity solutions
• Configure and support SSO, certificate-based authentication, secure communications, SAP Cloud Identity Services, identity federation, and secure access management across SAP cloud and on-premises environments
• Support SAP cloud solutions and integrations, including SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Success Factors, and other connected SAP services.
• Contribute to cybersecurity, infrastructure coordination, disaster recovery readiness, governance, audit preparedness, and compliance management in a complex SAP environment
• Participate in after-hours support, extended work schedules, and on-call rotation as needed.

We are posting this opportunity for the Journey level along with our Entry level position. The department will be filling one position at either level. If you are interseted in the Entry (#3126) level position, you will need to apply to the position separately.

Official SMUD Classification:
Enterprise Application Administrator Journey

To administer enterprise software applications to…