About The Opportunity
Industry : IT services & enterprise software consulting. Sector : SAP performance engineering, Basis operations and enterprise ERP performance optimisation for large-scale, mission-critical SAP landscapes. This is a hands-on, on-site role based in India focused on ensuring peak SAP system performance, stable SLAs, and efficient capacity planning for cross-industry clients (manufacturing, retail, finance, utilities).
Role (standardized title) : SAP Performance Engineer — on-site in India, reporting into the Infrastructure / Platform Engineering team to design, execute and operationalize performance tuning, testing and monitoring practices across SAP environments.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end performance engineering for SAP landscapes : identify bottlenecks, design remediation, and implement tuning at ABAP, application server, DB, and OS layers.
- Plan and execute performance / load tests (LoadRunner / JMeter), analyse results, and present capacity and SLA-impacting insights to stakeholders.
- Perform SQL tracing and ABAP profiling (ST05,ST12,ST03N,STAD) and work with developers / DBAs to optimise long-running statements and expensive database operations.
- Implement and maintain proactive monitoring & APM (CCMS, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana) to detect regressions, create baselines, and automate alerting / health-checks.
- Own performance incident RCA, create runbooks and performance playbooks, and collaborate with Basis, DBAs, networking, and application teams to implement fixes.
- Drive capacity planning, performance benchmarking and tuning standards; document outcomes and mentor junior engineers on best practices.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
3+ years in SAP performance engineering / Basis with demonstrable experience in ABAP tracing, ST05 / ST12 / ST03N and DB optimization (HANA / Oracle / MSSQL).Hands-on with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter) and experience designing realistic load scenarios and analysing results.Strong troubleshooting across stack : application server, database, OS (Linux / Windows) and networking; solid scripting skills (Shell / Python) for automation.Preferred
Experience with SAP HANA performance tuning, SAP Solution Manager, and APM tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic).Knowledge of cloud-hosted SAP landscapes (AWS / Azure) and performance considerations for HANA on cloud.Relevant certifications (SAP Basis / HANA) or proven track record in large-scale SAP migrations / upgrades focused on performance outcomes.Benefits & Culture Highlights
Collaborative, outcome-driven engineering culture with emphasis on knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement.Opportunity to work across full SAP stack on high-impact, enterprise-grade systems and critical performance projects.On-site role with direct exposure to cross-functional teams—ideal for engineers who enjoy hands-on troubleshooting and stakeholder-facing responsibilities.Location : India (On-site). If you are a pragmatic SAP performance professional who converts deep technical analysis into measurable production improvements, we want to hear from you.
Skills : sap,performance engineering,load runner
Skills Required
Hana, Mssql, New Relic, Jmeter, Shell, Dynatrace, Splunk, Loadrunner, Azure, Oracle, Python, Aws