SAS Administrator Location: Charlotte, NC

Job Title: SAS Administrator
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 3+ Months
DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES

The consultant will be responsible for the following: Perform SAS software administration including software configuration, updates, patches, and hotfixes and license renewals as needed.
Manages metadata identities, users, groups, and roles
Manage, monitor, and tune performance for five (5) SAS environments.
Uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, create metadata objects, creating metadata folder structures.
Manages permissions to metadata objects
Integrate SAS environment with various security tools including Centrify
Advise customer IT administrators on identification and diagnosis of issues within the environment
Acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues with the SAS environment.
Assist with administration tasks for Linux (RHEL 6.x).
Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational database systems, including Oracle, DB2, and other data sources
Monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services? Other SAS administrative tasks as required

QUALIFICATIONS
ESSENTIAL

Bachelor degree in related field such as computer science, information science, or data science, or statistics
Experience implementing and supporting SAS software.
3 years of experience doing SAS administrationExperience with SAS 9.4 is a must.
Experience installing and configuring SAS software, implementing hotfixes, and software patches.
Experience monitoring and troubleshooting SAS services.
Experience with SAS Management Console adding identities, defining libraries, setting permissions and access controls, creating metadata folder structures
Experience with migration of metadata objects across SAS environments
Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including: Supporting users of SAS clients such as SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS DI Studio, SAS Enterprise Miner, and the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office Experience administering SAS in both a Windows a Linux environment? Strong problem solving abilities
Competence in Microsoft Office

QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED

Implementation and administration experience with core SAS software, including: SAS Analytics Pro including Base SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPHSAS/ACCESS to Oracle, DB2, ODBC, OLE DB.
Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server
SAS Data Management Advanced
SAS Business Rules Manager
SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager
SAS Visual Analytics
SAS Marketing Optimization
SAS Decision Manager and Real-Time Decision Manager
Experience with migration of SAS metadata across multiple environments.
Experience in the energy Industry.
Good written and spoken communication skills in English.