Application Administrator (SAS)

Summary:

Join our team as a SAS Administrator/Developer supporting enterprise-wide multi-terabyte SAS environments, including SAS 9.4 M7 and Viya 3.5. You'll apply your expertise in SAS tools (Base, EG, DI Studio, Management Console) and UNIX systems to install, patch, and troubleshoot within AWS environments. This role involves both development and administrative tasks, including repointing existing scripts to new data sources and deploying code across environments. Ideal for professionals with strong SAS, Linux, and data warehouse knowledge, plus experience integrating with Active Directory. A proactive mindset, collaboration with system teams, and the ability to modernize legacy implementations are key to success in this role.

 

Required Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience supporting multi-terabyte SAS environments (SAS 9.4 M7 and Viya 3.5) that are enterprise wide and serve multiple business units.
  • Expert knowledge of SAS Base, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS DI Studio and SAS Management Console.
  • Strong experience installing SAS 9.4/Viya software and patches in AWS environment.
  • Strong experience with UNIX OS.
  • Good understanding of systems, networking, and storage.
  • Experience in communicating across systems teams for their execution of SAS patching and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Active Directory integration for SAS implementations.
  • Linux, SAS 9.4, Viya 3.5, SAS data step, SAS Macros, SAS sql coding, DI Studio experience, SAS EG development experience.

Required Skills:

  • Strong knowledge of relational database design and data warehouse best practices.
  • Proactive thinking towards improving legacy system implementations.
  • Aptitude and desire to learn other administrator tools in the team's environment and area of responsibility for support.
  • Able to deploy developer code from development environment to test and production environments in accordance with release schedules.

Description of Duties :

  • This is a project related assignment that involves the re-pointing of existing SAS scripts to new data sources.
  • This involves a combination of development and administration skills, as well as changing code via SAS Enterprise Guide.