Title: AWS SAS Grid Administrator
Location: Remote/ Reston, VA
Duration: 12 Months
Description:
Analytics CoE team is looking for an AWS 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
SQL, Python, R, Shell Scripting, Yaml, Json
NOTE: Minimum of 5+ years of SAS Grid Admin experience in SAS environment (500-1000 users)