Sunheer Vakkayil, SAP Basis

Sunheer Vakkayil

SAP Basis

Qatar Gas Transport Company

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
15 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months

SAP Basis at Qatar Gas Transport Company
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since September 2018

 Hardware Sizing and Landscape designing for all SAP product suites for on-premise and cloud (Azure and AWS).
 Pricing calculation and cost estimation for cloud infrastructure - Azure and AWS.
 Deploying and migrating SAP workloads on Azure and AWS cloud.
 High availability cluster configuration of SAP application later and HANA DB on SUSE Linux on Azure using Pacemaker cluster and Stonith.
 Storage, Backup and Azure site recovery setups.
 Diagnostics, Performance and resource usage monitoring on Azure and AWS.
 Disaster recovery site setup for SAP applications and HANA DB on on-premise, Azure and AWS.
 Migration of Business suite system running on any database to HANA.
 Installation, upgrade, migration and configurations of SAP S4 HANA system and Embedded Analytics Engine configurations.
 SuccessFactors - ECC integration using HANA Cloud Integrator and Hana Cloud Connector.
 Installation and configurations of SAP applications and databases on various operating systems and End-to-End SAP system administration skills.
 SAP FIORI Launchpad and apps configurations.
 SAP Web dispatcher configurations.
 Upgrade of SAP systems. (SAP portal upgrade, EHP upgrade, Solution Manager 7.1 upgrade, BW 731 upgrade, BO upgrade, and SAP IDM upgrade).
 SAP kernel upgrade and SAP JVM switch across the landscape.
 SAP BW 701 dual stack split and upgrade 701- ABAP and 701-Java to NW 731.
 Installation and configuration of SAP OpenText Vendor Invoice Management solution in SAP ECC and administration of SAP OpenText OCR (ICC).
 Expertise in ECC-BW, Portal-ECC, Portal-BW, BO-BW, Portal-BO integrations and integration of SAP systems with external third party systems using SAP XI/PI and sftp.
 PI/XI configurations skills on Technical systems, Business systems, SLD and communication channels.
 Oracle Data Guard configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting.
 MSCS cluster configurations for SAP and related DBs.
 Infrastructure configurations on Azure & AWS. Deployment of Windows and Linux VMs, VNet and Subnet configurations, Storage provisioning and configurations, Network security (firewall) and Load balancer configurations.
 AD Domain services configurations on Azure.
 SSO configuration of SAP applications like Hana cloud platform, SAP analytics cloud, on-premise applications etc. using Azure Identity services.
 Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site VPN configurations between on-premise to Azure cloud AND cloud to cloud platforms (AWS <-> Azure).
 Experience in deploying and administering SAP and related DBs on private cloud solution - Fujitsu FlexFrame Orchestrator.
 SAP systems OS/DB migration between various platforms. SAP system copy, system refresh and client copies.
 Performance monitoring and tuning of SAP applications and databases.
 SAP Content server and OpenText archiving solution for SAP configurations.
 OpenText vendor invoice VIM and archiving solution installation and configurations.
 Expertise in SAP data security using tool SAP TDMS.
 Expertise in integrating and administering Data Analytics engines like MS Power BI, SAP Analytics cloud, SAP BO/BI, BPC and BW with HANA DB.
 SAP User and role management. Design SAP Authorization/Role matrix. Exposure in SAP IDM.
 Enabling of SAP Audit logs, table auditing, user traces and database auditing.
 SAP transport management system CTS configurations.
 SAP application workload distribution using logon groups, additional application servers and HW load balancer.
 Configuration of solution manager Central system monitoring, EWA, MOPZ and knowledge on CHARM and Service Desk - ITSM.
 SAN/NAS Storage management, monitoring and administration.
 Network and Security design, monitoring and administration.
 Linux/Unix & Windows administrations. File System, Users, Security, Firewall, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
 HTTPS/SSL based configurations for SAP & non-SAP applications.

SAP Technical Architect / Lead - SAP Basis, HANA, AWS and Azure cloud at ISYX Technologies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2016 to September 2018

Summary
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• SAP Technical Architect / Lead - SAP Basis, HANA, AWS and Azure cloud, having experience over 10 years of which last 8 Years in SAP consulting, Architecting and 2 years in system administration.
• SAP implementation, support, upgrade and migration projects. Completed 10 end-to-end implementation, 9 upgrades, 7 migration and 5 support projects.
• Extensively worked on AWS and AZURE cloud for hosting and migrating SAP applications and HANA DB.
• Architecting, landscape designing, hardware sizing for SAP product suites including HANA and S/4 HANA.
• Pre-sales activities including solution designing, solution proposing, presenting demos, forecasting BASIS efforts required for each project.
• Expert knowledge and experience in SAP Solution manager ITSM and CHARM configurations.
• S/4 HANA implementation, system conversion, S/4 HANA Embedded Analytics engine configurations and analytical apps configurations.
• FIORI landscape designing, Launchpad configuration and FIORI apps configurations.
• Solution Architecting on AWS and AZURE cloud including cloud subscription management, account setup, networking, storage management, VM deployments, network security, high availability cluster, backup and disaster recovery setup.
• Extensive knowledge and administration skills on Linux, Unix & Windows OS and Hana, Oracle, MS Sql, Sybase ASE and MaxDB databases.
• Project Management involving Initiation, Requirement Finalization, Project Scoping, Planning and Delivery within the agreed timelines and with the designed Quality
• A good team player and having good experience and skills on managing and leading team.
• Expert in IT Service Management with in-depth knowledge of strategy, design, transition, operation and continual service improvement stages of service life cycle.
• Honest, resourceful, proactive, adaptable, creative, collaborated, high commitment, strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Excellent documentation and report writing skills


AREA of EXPERTISE
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• Enterprise Architect On-Premise and Cloud (AWS and Azure)
• SAP implementation, upgrade, migration, production support, off-shore setup and transition.
• SAP Solution manager ITSM and CHARM.
• Pre-sales support and solution design.
• Cross platform management - Unix, Linux, Windows OS and Hana, MsSql & Oracle DB.
• Networking, security, data protection, backup, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Project Management
• Understands Business & IT
• Team & People Management

SAP Basis/Netweaver Consultant at KAUST
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2013 to November 2016

• Hardware Sizing and Landscape designing.
• SAP User and role administration.
• Installation and configurations of SAP ECC, BW, BI/BO, GRC, Solution Manager, Portal, BPC, SAP IDM 7.2, SAP XI/PI.
• Installation of High Available SAP production systems on, UNIX, Windows MSCS and Oracle Failsafe technologies.
• SAP systems OS/DB migration UNIX to Windows and Vice Versa.
• Installed SAP BO 4.0 on cluster by using technologies, Windows MSCS, Oracle Failsafe and Hardware Load balancer.
• Upgrade of SAP systems. (EHP update, Solution Manager 7.1 upgrade, BW 731 upgrade, BO upgrade).
• BW 701 dual stack split and successfully upgraded 701-ABAP and 701-Java to NW 731.
• SAP system copy, system refresh and client copies.
• Done integration between various SAP and Non SAP systems. Which includes, ECC-BW, Portal-ECC, Portal-BW(Bex Web), BO-BW, Portal-BO, PI/XI integration etc..
• SAP BI/BO 4.0 configuration and administration.
• Solution manager EWA, MOPZ configuration and knowledge on CHARM and Service Desk configuration.
• Implementation of OSS notes, kernel patches and support packages.
• Oracle upgrade from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.3 on primary site and standby (DR) site.
• Oracle data guard configuration and troubleshooting.
• Backup and Recovery configuration of SAP and non-SAP systems.

SAP Basis/Netweaver Consultant at Wipro Arabia Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2010 to May 2013

1) Administration of all SAP products.

2) Upgrade of SAP products.

3) Installation configuration of all SAP products in Central, Distributed and High Availability environment .
SAP products: ECC/SRM/CRM/SCM/BI/BW/PI/Portal/Solution Manager/Live Cache/ Business Objects BI 4.0
Databases: Oracle/DB2/MAXDB/Sql Server
Operating System: Linux/UNIX/AIX/Windows Server

4) Installation, upgrade, administration of underlying database like Oracle, Sql server, Max DB

5) Daily monitoring of SAP systems and associated databases.

6) Integration between various SAP products and third part system.

7) SAP system copy,

8) SAP migration.

9) Client copy.

10) SAP change management system.

11) Apply support packages and sap notes.

12) Perform kernel upgrade of SAP products.

13) Oracle database administration.

14) Sql Server/MAXDB/DB2 administration.

15)Linux/UNIX/AIX/Windows Server administration.

16) Perform backup and recovery of all SAP products.

System Administrator at Cerulean Infotech
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2009 to July 2010

• SAP Systems installations, Configuration and administration.
• SAP System Copy.
• Monitor application performance and recommend optimization efforts for the SAP Landscape.
• Plan and moving the transports to Production.
• SAP system copy.
• Oracle DB administration.
• Oracle upgrade.
• MySQL administration.
• Administration of UNIX/Windows systems where SAP. applications and Oracle DB runs.
• NW Enterprise Portal on Windows high Availability Cluster.
• Performed Integration of Portal with ECC.
• Performed integration BI with ECC.

System Administrator at Cochin Computer Labs
  • India
  • June 2008 to August 2009

• SAP systems OS administration.
• Supporting SAP team for installation and configuration on Windows and Unix.
• Monitor application performance and recommend optimization efforts for the SAP Landscape.
• Oracle DB administration.
• Oracle upgrade.
• Administration of UNIX/Windows systems where SAP. applications and Oracle DB runs.
• Managing file system.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Cocchin University of Science and technology
  • April 2008

Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
Windows Azure
sap basis
oracle database administration
sap basis administration
sap basis netweaver administration
Unix administration
SAP HANA
SAP HANA
Cloud Security
Cloud Solution Architect

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty (Certificate)
SAP OpenText certified Administrator – Archiving solution for SAP. (Certificate)
SAP certified technology associate in NW 7.31 (C_TADM51_731). (Certificate)
Red Hat Certified Engineer in RHEL 5. (Certificate)
Record of achievement from Open SAP on SAP S4 HANA Implementation (Certificate)
Oracle Certified Professional in Database Administration. (Certificate)
SAP HANA - Operations & Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP

Hobbies

  • Reading, Games, Social Activities, Travelling