SAS Administrator

SAS Administrator

Visa status: U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Tax Terms: W2, 1099 Corp-Corp or 3rd Parties: Yes

WFH Flexible • Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Perform SAS installation, apply maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as required.
• Provide SAS technical support to end users and implementing new SAS technical solutions.
• Provides operational enhancements, maintenance, installation and support of the SAS EBI 9.x platform.
• Provide SAS platform security management, SAS application and underlying infrastructure support (OS, Storage, SAS 9.2/SAS9.3/SAS9.4EBI Applications, Web and Database) and ensuring processes are aligned with tactical and strategic information management initiatives.
• Serve as liaison between the SAS Developers and infrastructure support teams to ensure appropriate delivery of technology solutions (performance tuning, data modeling, capacity and utilization, backups, disaster recovery, user support, training and documentation) in accordance with business requirements and objectives.
• Collaborate with SAS support on issue resolution and new SAS solutions.
• Monitor usage logs to assist in performance tuning of the systems and servers.
• Establish best practices and guidelines for usage of the SAS platform.

Experience in SAS Viya Administration is a Plus for the job

Required Skills:

• Experience implementing and maintaining platform security via SAS Metadata.
• Good team player with strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exposure to AWS Cloud services such as EC2, Redshift, ELB, Workspaces is a plus.

Education/Experience Level:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent.
• At least 5+ years of product implementation and administration of SAS BI, DI and Analytics.