Hiring for SAS Administrator

Columbus, OH, US • Posted 16 hours ago • Updated 16 hours ago

Contract Independent

Contract W2

No Travel Required

On-site

Depends on Experience

IntelliX Software, Inc.

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Skills

("SAS Administrator" OR "SAS Admin" OR "SAS Enterprise BI" OR "SAS BI Administrator") AND ("SAS Viya" OR "Viya Administrator" OR "Viya Architect") AND ("SAS 9.4" OR "Enterprise BI Server") AND (AIX OR Linux)
Microsoft Excel
Firewall
Apache Hadoop
Backup Administration
Backup
SAS/Access
SAS
SQL

Summary

SAS Administrator

downtown columbus OH, 5x week

ODM SAS Administrator Technical Services:

• Design SAS solutions, such as SAS Viya and EBI, considering infrastructure, file structure, and high availability.

• Advise stakeholders on SAS solution and implementation decisions.

• Implement SAS solutions based on agreed-upon architecture/design.

• Coordinate implementation projects across server, storage, and networking teams.

• Guide and support SAS users in code and report development.

• Prepare and execute deployment plans across Dev, Test, and Prod environments.

• Establish best practices for SAS implementation and support.

• Provide and oversee SAS support including user administration, monitoring, capacity management, and troubleshooting.

• Drive SAS support activities across server, storage, and networking teams.

• Train and coach backup SAS administrator.

• Create automated processing jobs on the SAS Server to meet the business user needs.

• Work with internal provisioning authorization teams to keep SAS access in conformance with agency policy and auditing standards.

• Provide reports, metrics and presentations to various teams, groups, and meetings as required.

• Create and architecture diagrams with process flows when necessary.

• Create and maintain connectivity to disparate data sources (including Oracle, MS SQL, Hadoop, Impala, network shares, etc.)

• Facilitate data sharing and exchanges with both internal and external entities.

• Continuously monitor the production processes, fix any issues, update the tracker document with the issues, and report the performance issues to management.

• Performance tuning on the SAS Server as required.

• Demonstrate strong familiarity with and instruct various SAS users in procedures for using various SAS applications and tools.

• Understand and write SAS programs and diagnose coding errors and performance issues with SAS users.

• Create Service tickets to fix production issues in cooperation with SAS Tech support and other state or external IT entities.

• Provide solutions to eliminate various single point of failure issues.

• Perform system maintenance, patches, upgrades, and data backups, as necessary.

• Work with SAS Institute staff to provide information and requirements for fixing, remediating, enhancing, and planning various SAS server platform and client, changes, upgrades, design requirements and performance issues.

• Research and provide recommendations to management for any issues or concerns regarding the SAS Server, SAS client or SAS user issues or desires.

• Implement and install and configure software as requested and work with the AIX admin to perform these duties as necessary,

• Keep abreast of SAS analytical tools and functionality (Forecast Studio, Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, PC SAS and other tools).

• Monitor SAS Enterprise BI servers and diagnose and troubleshoot any SAS Server performance issues.

• Provision access for users and groups on SAS Servers (and AIX Servers) in accordance with ODM governance procedures and requirements.

• Create and run AIX scripts and jobs as necessary for Server provisioning and administration.

• Perform Server patching and maintenance, as necessary.

• Provide sizing inputs and requirements during architecture/system design to ensure system specifications meet anticipated system workload.

REQUIRED Skill Sets:

8+ years of experience with SAS Enterprise BI Server administration.
2+ years of experience with SAS Viya platform administration
8+ years of experience installing SAS BI server from scratch on a multitier platform.
Design and configure SAS internal folder structures to facilitate user access and provisioning.
4+ years of experience in creating and running AIX scripts and jobs as necessary for Server provisioning and administration.
4+ years of experience - Perform Server patching and maintenance as necessary.
2+ years of experience on SAS VIYA administration and worked in the architect capacity.
Provide management reports from both the SAS server and the AIX OS upon request.
Strong knowledge and practice implementing standard security policies and procedures for both SAS Server and SAS clients.
Regularly provide access for SAS users and accessible resources (data sets and database connections)
Good experience in working with Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
Effective communication, presentation, & organizational skills.
Familiar with Project Management methodologies.
Ability to create and execute written project plans
Ability to establish priorities & follow through on projects, paying close attention to detail with minimal supervision.
Required Education: BS/BA degree (in computer science or related field) or combination of education & experience

DESIRED Skill Sets:

Demonstrate effective leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills
Required excellent written and oral communication skills with technical and business teams.
Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
Stay abreast of current technologies in area of IT assigned
Establish facts and draw valid conclusions
Recognize patterns and opportunities for improvement throughout the entire organization
Ability to discern critical from minor problems and innovate new solutions

· Strong documentation skills in readable English

· Ability to create reports from both SAS Enterprise Server and AIX Operating system

· Strong familiarity with both Windows and AIX/Linux operating systems

· Familiarity with SQL programing in both Oracle and MS SQL

· Experience Installing an entire SAS BI server on a multitier platform

· Experience packaging, installing, and troubleshooting SAS 9.4 client applications on Windows OS.

· Strong experience troubleshooting both SAS Server and Client performance issues

· Strong knowledge of basic networking (firewalls, switches, routing, etc.) and diagnosing performance bottlenecks.

· Ability to recommend improvement changes in SAS Server, SAS client, and SAS user analytic procedures to benefit the entire organization

· Exceptional ability to work as part of a team and to interact with other teams both inside and outside of the organization.

· Experience setting up SAS AUTH provisioning for accessing external data and database systems.

· Experience in using Directory Services (LDAP, AD, other) groups for provisioning access in SAS.

· Strong ability to provide technical explanations to SAS Technical support teams, to facilitate troubleshooting issues for both SAS Server and SAS user issues.

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Dice Id: 90614925
Position Id: 8868441
Posted 16 hours ago

Company Info

About IntelliX Software, Inc.

By combining a highly-skilled local presence with a proven global development model, IntelliX delivers exceptional value to its customers, becoming a partner in their success.

Founded in 2005, IntelliX Software is a privately-owned company headquartered in the United States, Columbus, Ohio. From the beginning, the owners recognized an opportunity to create a new approach to IT services. IntelliX’ onsite/offshore model is the best of both worlds, providing onsite, local experts to develop one-on-one relationships, backed by global company resources and capabilities. This unique model has allowed IntelliX to craft a custom solution for each and every customer.

Our Vision

To earn global admiration as an IT Outsourcer, by building and maintaining long lasting relationship with people and technology and deliver functional software and excellent services.

We ensure an excellent relationship with our internal and external team; our employees and our clients. Our Team members work towards maximization of profits and to assist as well as enhance our clients’ business profits, productivity and also aim at overall growth of the business venture. We value our customers and try very hard to satisfy them in every way. Our functioning is transparent and we are totally committed towards team work, which would result in better results for our clients.

Our Mission

To strive hard to be a winner in various sectors of Software Outsourcing and consulting, maintaining excellence in our work culture. We also believe in implementing new and innovative concepts in our various project development processes, while ensuring cost effectiveness along with required solutions to our prospective clients.

Partnering with various clients help in bringing fresh ideas into the firm ensuring our youth in innovation, thus improving our quality standards accompanied with growth in the business productivity to be a trustworthy as well as a fair business partner Strong adherence to maintaining quality work along with its regular up-gradation. We would like to also motivate our staff to keep up high standards, keeping in view our clients’ complete satisfaction.

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