Job Title: SAS Platform Admin
Location: New Jersey Remote
Duration: / Term: 6 months Contract
Job Description:
SAS Platform & Linux/Unix Servers. Project Management Tools: ServiceNow (SNOW)Cloud Services: AWS (IaaS PasS & SaaS) Shell Scripting: BASH SH.
Databases: MySQL Postgres Hive & Impala. Operating Systems: RedHat Linux.
Job Responsibilities:
- Handson experience on performing SAS administrative tasks such as installing and configuring SAS software on the client servers applying licenses Hotfixes and Patching.
- Expertise in provisioning and setting up user & group profiles creating Data Libraries on the SAS Metadata server using SAS Management Console.
- Skilled at working on the migration project (On Prem to Cloud & Cloud Native).
- Expertise in providing ONCALL support during application critical P1/P2 Incidents troubleshooting.
- Skilled at troubleshooting manual & scheduled SAS Job Failures on the Linux Server.
- Handson experience on configuring and maintaining Enterprise Linux/Unix servers.
- Expertise in installing and configuring ODBC Drivers and Data source connections at user level and server level on the RedHat Linux servers.
- Responsible for handling service Change Tasks Request Tasks and Incidents.
- Responsible for Job scheduling on several application accounts and monitoring critical jobs on RedHat systems.
- Responsible for execution of IQs OQs and other application Data Loads through Application Lifecycle Management Tool.
- Responsible for application configuration changes and deployments.
- Provisioning servers maintenance hardening and performance tuning of all SAS servers which includes AWS cloud and OnPremises servers.
- Responsible for File System (NFS and LVMs) configurations necessary cleanups and directory setup and monitoring.
- Experience in Writing Shell scripts to automate the process and improve efficiency as well as platform availability.
- Involved in the management of major process areas and process adherence and service delivery.
- Responsible for recovering several applications within the given RTO on yearly Disaster Recovery (DR). Skilled at troubleshooting manual & scheduled SAS Job Failures on the Linux Server.
- Provide daytoday Tier 3 level operational support including responding to incidents troubleshooting and executing corrective actions.
- Assisting Tier 2 support with after action reports such as Root Cause Analysis Reports to include researching potential incident.
- To be responsible for providing technical guidance to a team of developers enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity.
- To conduct comprehensive code reviews establish and oversee quality assurance processes performance optimization implementation of best practices and coding standards to ensure successful delivery of complex projects.
- To ensure process compliance in the assigned module and participate in technical discussions or review as a technical consultant for feasibility study (technical alternatives best packages supporting architecture best practices technical risks breakdown into components estimations).
- To collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope objectives deliverables and accordingly prepare and submit status reports for minimizing exposure and closure of escalations.
Key Skills:
SAS Admin SAS Management Console Linux UNIX Shell Scripting ODBC Drivers RedHat.