SAS Administrator

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• Responsible for the overall availability of the SAS tools and software environments.
• Provides support for multiple SAS environments for development, QA, production, and disaster recovery.
• Performs SAS software administration; including software configuration, updates, patches, and hotfixes and license renewals as needed on Linux / Redhat (RHEL) platforms.
• Provides SAS Platform capacity planning, metrics and performance tuning recommendations.
• Executes actions necessary to achieve and maintain optimum SAS platform performance, reliability and availability.
• Identifies bottlenecks in production systems and provide solutions.
• Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, Linux operating systems, LDAP/Active Directory, and data warehousing environments.
• Manage metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.
• Uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, and create metadata objects and folder structures
• Manages permissions to metadata objects.
• Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational databases.
• Serves as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues and acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS environments.
• Creates policies and procedures and updates documentation to meet compliance requirements.

• 2 years or more experience as a SAS Administrator with an in-depth understanding of the SAS 9.x Intelligence platform architecture (preferably SAS 9.4) metadata server, application server, web server, web application server, stored process server in a multi-tiered environment.
• Excellent knowledge of SAS Metadata Management console and all components including Server management, User Management, Library management etc.
• Good Linux/RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration knowledge is required.
• Detailed knowledge of SAS platform security, performance, server design, cross-platform architecture, system backup, recovery and storage administration.
• Ability to implement and manage automated monitoring solutions for SAS Platforms to ensure SLAs are maintained.
• Familiar with Base and Macro SAS programming
• Proficient with Linux shell scripting.
• Good oral and written communications, interpersonal, and organisational skills required.

• Experience with the installation and maintenance of SAS in complex environments such as High Availability (multiple machine, multi-tiered environment), SAS Grid computing, SPD Server (SPDS), Hadoop, and In-memory processing.
• SAS Certified Platform Administrator Certification or equivalent.
• Experience with cloud-based environments, especially Amazon Web Services.
• Base SAS and Advanced SAS Certification.