IT Engineer V SAS Administrator
IT Engineer V SAS Administrator
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07-12-2024
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Job Tittle :IT Engineer V / SAS Administrator
Location :Reston VA
Duration :12months
Tax terms :W2C2C
Job Description:
- Analytics CoE team is looking for a SAS Administrator that will be playing a key role in administering our SAS Analytics infrastructure. This role will focus on deploying administering and enhancing SAS Viya 4 on Kubernetes while ensuring integration with cloudnative services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in managing modern cloudnative analytics (SAS Viya 4 & Kubernetes) deployments & largescale distributed processing (SAS Grid).
Duties & Responsibilities
Installation and Configuration:
- Lead the installation configuration and administration of SAS Viya 4 on
- AWS EKS.
- Implement and document best practices for deploying and integrating SAS Viya into cloudnative environments.
- Collaborate with DevOps and cloud teams to ensure seamless integration of SAS Viya with AWS Kubernetes infrastructure.
Performance Optimization:
- Monitor and optimize the performance of SAS Viya 4 applications to meet business needs.
- Implement resource management and scaling strategies for Kubernetes to support SAS Viya.
- Analyze system performance metrics and apply turning techniques for improved efficiency.
CloudNative Operations:
- Administer and maintain SAS Viya environments on AWS Cloud leveraging core AWS services for optimal performance.
- Ensure high availability failover configurations and disaster recovery setups for SAS Viya 4.
- Use automation tools to streamline operational tasks like upgrades patching and backups in Kubernetesbased SAS Viya deployments.
Advance Troubleshooting:
- Investigate and resolve complex issues related to SAS Viya and Grid components.
- Troubleshoot installation issues user issues on daily basis.
- Review logs and provide diagnostic reports to identify and mitigate system bottlenecks and failures.
Continuous Support Operations:
- Provide daytoday operation of the SAS platform on AWS cloud and provide technical support to developers researchers and analysts.
- Participate in oncall rotation for critical issue resolution.
- Ensure compliance by applying SAS Viya security and governance best practices.
- Work closely with analytics teams to support SAS developers researchers and data scientists.
Required qualifications:
- Masters degree in computer science Information Technology or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of SAS Admin experience with at least 3 years in SAS Viya 4 administration in a Kubernetes environment.
- Proven success in installing optimizing and supporting largescale SAS Viya deployments.
- Solid knowledge of AWS Cloud services with handson experience optimizing SAS Viya deployments.
- Proficiency in working with Kubernetes orchestration containerization and YAML configurations.
- Strong experience in Linuxbased environments including scripting with Python SQL Shell scripting YAML and JSON.
Key Competencies:
- Expertise in scaling and performance tuning for SAS Viya environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes monitoring and optimization tools for SAS workloads.
- Ability to manage and resolve SAS Viya application issues independently.
- Experience in utilizing Terraform Gitlab & AWS CFN for managing Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC).
- Strong communication skills to support technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Selfstarter with experience handling cloudnative application lifecycles.
Tools/Skillset:
- SAS Grid Software 9.4
- SAS Viya 4
- SAS Enterprise Guide & SAS Studio
- SQL Python Shell Scripting Yaml Json
Employment Type
Full Time
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