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# SAP Basis Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Avantra
- **Location:** Richmond, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SAP Cloud, JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Computer Programming, Linux, Python (Programming Language), SAP ERP, Windows PowerShell, Ansible, SAP (Applications), SAP Logistics, SAP Solution Manager, Scripting, RISE with SAP, SAP Business Technology Platform, Low-code
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a4d7f33ffa6769d0

## About the Role

* Deep SAP Basis expertise, ideally gained in a service provider environment or across multiple SAP customers with hands-on work and decision making
 * Programming, scripting or low-code automation experience (e.g. JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, Avantra automations, or Ansible) and knowledge of Linux
 * Exposure to SAP cloud technologies (eg. SAP Business Technology Platform, RISE with SAP, SAP Core AI, Joule, or Clean Core projects)
 * Experience with technical security and compliance in SAP, perhaps from answering auditors requests or working in a regulated environment
 * Hands-on experience with observability, automation or security tools like SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, or those from third-parties
 * Excellent communication skills to explain complex security issues to both engineers and executives

## Description

* Analyse SAP software on-premises and in the cloud to design and specify new automations and solve observability problems
 * Develop automations to solve SAP operations problems, including scripting and development, testing, documentation and shipping the software
 * Provide a strong product opinion for what problem we solve next, how we solve it, and what you would want if you were using Avantra to run SAP landscapes
 * Install, configure and maintain SAP software to replicate real-life cutting-edge scenarios and support the continued development of Avantra
 * Stay up-to-date and knowledgeable about the latest SAP technologies and developments, best practices and cybersecurity as well as SAP-adjacent technologies, * More than five years of experience in running and supporting SAP landscapes


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