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:
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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:
- 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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