Cloud Technical Lead

Cloud Technical Lead - Hybrid | Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

The SAS Cloud Operations team is looking for a Cloud Technical Lead to provide technical leadership for our customer engagements running in our cloud. In our rapidly growing team, you will have exciting opportunities to collaborate with customers and colleagues across SAS to deliver outstanding service in our cloud environments.

As a Cloud Technical Lead, you will:

• Own all technical aspects of a customer environment from implementation through ongoing operations for a select portfolio of SAS Cloud customers.
• Oversee and approve all changes for assigned customers.
• Consult with customers as you learn their business and understand how SAS drives their business outcomes.
• Deliver excellent customer service using a customer first and continuous improvement mindset.
• Collaborate with global SAS R&D, Product, Technical Support, Service Management Office, and other CIS teams to drive customer satisfaction and ensure service quality for hosted and remote managed customers.
• Contribute to customer success through a close partnership with Cloud Service Delivery Managers.
• Participate and share lessons learned through a Community of Practice with global CTL's.
• Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical experience including:
• 2 years of experience in consulting, systems support, customer support, or training for enterprise class software.
• 2 years of experience with UNIX or Linux supporting enterprise class applications.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Experience with containers, container-based applications, and/or container orchestration tools.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of programming languages, operating systems, utilities, services, and editors for assigned area
  Technical knowledge of the internal workings, diagnostic tools, and features of software systems
  Aptitude for visualization of solutions for complex problems
• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms like MS Azure, AWS, GCP, or OpenShift
• Experience with Python, Ansible, or Kubernetes
• Scripting experience (bash, powershell, etc)
• Experience with SAS
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

World-class benefits


Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
• PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that's free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.


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