Senior SAS Administrator

Senior SAS Administrator

  Not Disclosed

  Raleigh, NC

  12.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Consulting

Job Description

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

The client is seeking a full time Senior SAS Administrator to work with our client .
The client requires an experienced SAS Platform Adminstrator to administer a SAS 9.4 platform
on a Linux OS. The client has both SAS 9.4 and Viya environments. This role acts as a SAS
subject matter expert and liaison to SAS users and IT.
Additionally, This position will ensure that the SAS servers, as well as applicable security
infrastructure and its systems and processes, are aligned with tactical and strategic information
management initiatives. The Administrator will assist in the planning, coordination and implementation of various SAS products while troubleshooting system related problems and be
responsible for the overall availability of the SAS environment. Other responsibilities include
maintaining the SAS software roadmap, presenting technical briefings to the support staff,
developers and the management team.

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Business
Administration, or a related field is required and equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a SAS system administrator.
• Expert in the installation, configuration, deployment, and support of SAS products for
Windows workstations and Linux servers
Hands-on experience as a SAS administrator of the 9.4 suite in a linux environment
performing system monitoring, log analysis, performance analysis, performance tuning
and capacity planning. Any Viya administration experience is a plus.
• Administer, Maintain and tune the SAS platform Environments. Provides SAS Platform
capacity planning, metrics and performance tuning recommendations.
• Experience with Security and Authentication and SSO topics (related to the access of
source data, the access of data within SAS on the SAS servers across the different
business organizations).
• Experience using SAS Management Console (SMC).
o Creating Users. Groups and Roles.
o Creating and securing folders.
o Experience Monitoring Logs from within SMC.
o Experience defining Servers and changing server definitions.
o Experience creating SAS, RDBMS libraries (Teradata)
• Server Skills.
o Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and
security.
o Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and
environment files.
o Starting and stopping servers.
o Backup strategies and implementation.
• Security and Authentication (related to the access of source data within SAS on the SAS
servers across the different business organizations as well as SAS integration with tools
such as Active Directory/LDAP/) across multiple SAS products.
o o SAS/ODBC access products and configuring to connect RDBMS servers.
O SAS Visual Analytics
o SAS Studio
o SAS/Office Analytics – SAS/Enterprise Guide.
• Ability to install hot fixes, service packs, upgrades as well as add-on software
components.
• Understand basic Windows commands that will enable you to monitor SAS jobs, ability to
move around in a Windows environment as required for basic functioning of SAS and a
good understanding of how Windows and SAS are integrated.
• Be knowledgeable of Base SAS programming (DATA step), SQL programming (i.e., use of
SQL pass-through or PROC SQL).
• SAS data source connectivity to the following.
• Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security
• Experience in troubleshooting SAS Platform and client issues to root cause
• Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership skills

MAJOR RESPONSIBILTIES/ACTIVITIES:

Hands-on experience as a SAS administrator of the 9.4 suite in a linux environment
performing system monitoring, log analysis, performance analysis, performance tuning
and capacity planning.
• Performs client installations & troubleshooting, uses SAS Management Console to define
connections to data sources, define libraries, and create metadata objects and folder
structures and manages permissions to metadata folders.
• Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, linux operating
systems, LDAP/Active Directory, and data warehousing environments and manages
metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.
• Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational databases and
collaborates with storage, server, LDAP, DBAs and other IT administrators to support
ongoing operations for meeting the business needs via the SAS environment.
• Assists vendor with SAS software administration; including software updates, patches,
and hotfixes as needed on Microsoft Windows Server platforms and performs SAS
software configuration and license renewals as needed on linux platforms.
• Serves as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues and acts as a liaison
with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS environments.
• Provides SAS Platform capacity planning, metrics and performance tuning
recommendations. Executes actions necessary to achieve and maintain optimum SAS
platform performance, reliability and availability.
• Performs other duties as assigned.


Note :

2 days onsite and 3 days offsite hybrid weekly schedule.
VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status