SAS Administrator

Company: Kavi Global LLC
Location: Barrington
Posted on: August 4, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description SAS platform administrator is responsible for installation/configuration and administration of the SAS EBI, SAS OA, SAS VA, and SAS Viya. SAS administrator serves as liaison between the SAS Developers and enterprise infrastructure support teams to ensure appropriate delivery of technology solutions (performance tuning, backups, disaster recovery, user support, training, and documentation) in accordance with business requirements and objectives. Responsibilities: Ensures the overall health of the SAS platform. Perform new installation as necessary. Applies maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as required. Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata and Linux/Windows. Performs platform capacity planning and management. Executing change control and promotions activities. Establishes best practices and guidelines for usage of the SAS platform. Global point of contact for all SAS Administrator related projects and activities. Own and drive the SAS Product patching and release upgrade activity Manage and track SAS products inventory and license updates for SAS servers and end users. Provide all levels of technical and application support; incident management (Level 1, 2 and 3); address user, application, and data issues. Monitor usage logs to assist in performance tuning of the systems and servers. Manage the configuration support and maintenance of the SAS platform. Education: Master---s Degree in Computer Science, Technology or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology, or Engineering Experience 2 years of relevant experience Knowledge: Proven experience as a SAS Administrator on the distributed environment Experience with the installation and maintenance of SAS in complex environments such as High Availability (multiple machines, multi-tiered environment), SAS Grid computing, Hadoop, and In-memory processing. Experience with SAS Visual Analytics administration. SAS Certified Platform Administrator Certification or equivalent Good knowledge of Linux/RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration Infrastructure (server and database) and network proficiency. Detailed knowledge of SAS platform security, performance, server design, cross-platform architecture, system backup, recovery, and storage administration. Familiar with Base and Macro SAS programming Proficient with Linux shell scripting. Familiarity with various operating systems and platforms Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude Strong analytical, communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills Good to have operational experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Company Description Located in Barrington IL, Kavi Global is a pure play data analytics company offering consulting, software and solutions. We partner with our clients in accelerating and scaling analytics. Our mission is enabling business growth through leveraging analytics. We work with companies of all sizes, from the Fortune 500 to small and medium sized businesses in many industries. Kavi Global is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We offer competitive compensation and benefits. Attractive benefits package for full time employees include performance bonuses, technology certification bonuses, health insurance, short-term/long-term disability coverage and a 401K plan with company match. Visit www.kaviglobal.com

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