SAS Platform Administrator

North Carolina  ‐ Onsite
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SAS Platform Administrator

The SAS Platform Administrator provides operational enhancements, maintenance and support of the SAS 9.2 EBI GRID Platform. This includes providing SAS platform security management, SAS application and underlying infrastructure support (OS, Storage, SAS 9.2 EBI Applications, Web and Database) and ensuring processes are aligned with tactical and strategic information management initiatives. The SAS Platform Administrator serves as liaison between the enterprise infrastructure support teams and risk business partners to ensure appropriate delivery of technology solutions in accordance with business requirements and objectives. The SAS Platform Administrator also ensures the platform is positioned for compliance with IT policies and standards and agreed upon service levels.

SAS Platform Administrator Primary Responsibilities:

  • Ensures the overall health of the SAS platform
  • Applies maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as required
  • Designs solutions to reduce the operational and management complexity of the platform
  • Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS)
  • Performs platform capacity planning and management
  • Serves as an escalation point for escalated production and/or platform issues.
  • Establishes best practices and guidelines for usage of the SAS platform

SAS Technical Support Specialist Required Skills:

  • Must have excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical material to non-technical users.
  • Strong analytical and technical skills
  • Experience in and knowledge of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
  • 2+ years of SAS programming experience
  • 2+ years supporting SAS data sourcing and reporting deliveries
  • 1+ year using Platform LSF
  • 1+ year developing detailed technical documentation

SAS Technical Support Specialist Preferred Skills:

  • 2+ years of SPDS (Scalable Performance Data Server) experience
  • Background and/or knowledge of ITIL
  • Experience using SAS GRID computing technology

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Start date
ASAP
From
Gordon J Staffing
Published at
22.08.2012
Project ID:
409909
Contract type
Freelance
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