SAS Viya Administrator

Job Description
Looking for an SAS Viya Administrator
Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operation support for SAS Grid platforms both on-prem and on AWS cloud, and provide technical support to developers, researchers and analysts

• Effectively work with business analysts, development leads, researchers and technical teams to provide guidance on using appropriate SAS tools and SAS coding techniques, statistical methodologies and data manipulation as required

• Perform a key role in upgrading SAS Grid clusters from SAS 9.4 M4 to SAS 9.4 M8 and migrate all applications and users to the new upgraded environment

• Develop & maintain technical documentation including system diagrams & operational procedures

• Perform patching, upgrades, and installation of Hotfixes across the environments as necessary

• Troubleshoot installation issues, user issues on SAS AWS and On-prem Clusters

• Maintain and develop Knowledge Base Articles and Wiki Pages to document standard work and troubleshooting guides

• Review and understand SAS logs to determine GRID errors and whether GRID is functioning correctly

• Backing up and restoring SAS within a GRID environment

• 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
Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on production experience and knowledge on using and troubleshooting issues with SAS Development and Management Tools

• 3+ years of production experience with core AWS services

• 3+ years production experience with cloud orchestration tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform

• 2+ years of production experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines in systems like Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline

• Strong working experience on Linux environment

• Technical HandsOn with shell scripting

• 4+ years of experience with RDBMS, MSSQL Server, PGSQL, AWS DB Services

• 4+ years of experience with SAS Configuration Wizard to administer SAS deployment

• Experience defining Servers, updating server definitions and monitoring Logs from within SMC

• Experience with SAS Environment Manager, SAS Grid Manager, SASGSUB, SAS Grid Management Services, LSF Process Manager, Platform RTM, Starting and stopping servers

• 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

• Experience configuring SAS for High Availability within GRID environment - including Metadata Server

• Working with SAS GRID-related high availability and failover requirements, including storage architecture and configuration (Amazon FSx for Lustre)

• Experience with and applying SAS GRID usage tracking, monitoring, alerts notification and load balancing

• Desired to have SAS Viya Administration experience
Key Competencies:

• Should possess the ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously

• Knowledgeable in the AWS Well Architected Framework

• General knowledge of project management and proactive self-starter

• Excellent communication skills and be effective writing skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and able to meet deadlines

• Ability to independently research and resolve technical problems in a complex IT environment with local and remote groups
Tools/Skillset:

• SAS Grid Software 9.4+

• SAS Viya 3.x/4

• SAS Enterprise Guide 7.x

• SAS Studio 3.x

• SAS/ACCESS

• SAS/Connect

• SQL, Python, R, Shell Scripting, Yaml, Json
NOTE: Minimum of 5+ years of SAS Grid Admin experience in SAS environment ( users)