Senior SAS Administrator

Company: Stratacent
Location: Cary
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

Stratacent is seeking a Senior SAS Administrator to administer a SAS 9.4 platform on a Linux OS. Will be working as a SAS subject matter expert and liaison to SAS users and IT. 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.



Duration: 1 year 12 months (2000 hours)

Working Arrangement: 2 days onsite and 3 days offsite hybrid weekly schedule.



Qualifications Essential:

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• 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).
  
  
  
  
• Creating Users. Groups and Roles.
  
• Creating and securing folders.
  
• Experience Monitoring Logs from within SMC.
  
• Experience defining Servers and changing server definitions.
  
• Experience creating SAS, RDBMS libraries (Teradata)
  
  
  
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  • Server Skills.
    
    
    
    
  • Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security.
    
  • Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and environment files.
    
  • Starting and stopping servers.
    
  • Backup strategies and implementation.
    
    
    
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    • 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.
      
      
      
      
    • SAS/ODBC access products and configuring to connect RDBMS servers.
      
    • SAS Visual Analytics
      
    • SAS Studio
      
    • SAS/Office Analytics SAS/Enterprise Guide.
      
      
      
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      • 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 responsibilities/ Activities:
        
        
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        • 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.
          
          
          
          About Us:
          
          Stratacent is an IT Managed Services firm, headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with two global delivery centres in New York City area and New Delhi area plus offices in London, Canada and Pune, India.
          
          We are a leading IT services provider focusing in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences. We help our customers in their digital transformation journey and provide solutions around cloud infrastructure, containers, AI, Client & Analytics and Automation.
          
          We have partnerships with SAS, Automation Anywhere, Snowflake, Azure, AWS and GCP.
          
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          Benefits:
          
          
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          • Health Insurance
            
          • Vision Plan
            
          • Dental Plan
            
          • Paid Time Off
            
          • 401k
            
          • Continuous Learning Program
            
            Stratacent is an equal opportunity employer. As such, to the extent defined by federal, state, and municipal law, Stratacent will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, handicap, or any other factor protected by law.

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