Cloud SAS GRID Administrator

Job Description

Analytics CoE team is looking for a Cloud SAS GRID Administrator that will be playing a key role in helping on SAS Grid Re-Host to AWS Cloud and bring in key transformational changes to how we deploy and manage SAS Grid on cloud native architecture.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operation of the SAS platform 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
• 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
• SAS Enterprise Guide 7.x
• SAS Studio 3.x
• SAS/ACCESS
• SAS/Connect