SAS Administrator / SAS Support

Position Details

Job Title

SAS Admin/Support

Duration

18 Months

Location

Irvine, CA

Application Systems Engineer (SAS Admin/Support/on-call support)

General duties/responsibilities

• Build, Test and Maintain SAS codes and data sets
• Experience using SAS Management Console (SMC).
• Creating Users/Groups/Roles
• Creating and securing folders
• Creating and using Access Control Templates
• Creating, deploying and scheduling jobs

Requirements

• Experience with SAS Configuration Wizard to administer SAS deployment
• Experience monitoring Logs from within SMC
• Experience defining Servers and changing server definitions
• Experience creating SAS and DBMS libraries
• Experience with SAS Environment Manager
• AIX Server Skills
• Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security.
• Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and environment files.
• Starting and stopping servers.
• Korn shell scripting as it pertains to SAS servers.
• GPFS
• Ability to configure SAS servers to run within a SAS GRID environment.
• Assist with SAS capacity and disaster recovery planning and execution.
• Experience using SAS GRID Manager within the SAS Management Console.
• Experience SAS Grid Manager Client Utility and grid syntax.
• Experience with Enterprise Grid Orchestrator and Grid Management Services (GMS).
• Experience with Platform RTM for SAS.
• Experience with LSF Platform Process Manager as it pertains to a GRID environment (e.g., troubleshooting, configuration, installation, etc.).
• Experience enabling SAS code to run on the GRID in a SAS/Foundation environment (enabling EG and EM processes to run on the SAS GRID).
• Experience reading SAS logs to determine GRID errors and whether GRID is functioning correctly.
• Experience configuring SAS for High Availability within GRID environment – including Metadata Server.
• Experience designing SAS GRID architectures for optimal SAS deployment within a customer’s environment.
• Analyzing SAS GRID technical environment options and deployment architecture, including Grid node configuration.
• Working with SAS GRID-related high availability and failover requirements, including storage architecture and configuration (NAS / SAN configuration).
• Backing up and restoring SAS within a GRID environment.
• Experience with and applying SAS GRID usage tracking, monitoring, alerts notification and load balancing.
• Assessing and optimizing performance of the SAS GRID environment.
• Managing all GRID nodes from a centralized location.
• Adding nodes to the GRID environment, or reconfiguring nodes.

Other Requirements

• Minimum of 6+ years of SAS experience in a medium sized SAS environment (100-120 users)
• 5+ years of Oracle and Unix experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - must be able to effectively communicate with business users and IT teams
• Self-motivated, independent worker with good organization, analytical and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of Data Warehouse terminology, architecture and design
• Solid understanding of SAS statistical modeling capabilities and terminology
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field