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