Senior SAS Administrator

49 Solutions is looking for an SR SAS Administrator to work on a contract with Farm Credit Canada

Please see below for the requirements.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, and are interested in being put forward, kindly reach out with your CV and I would be happy to discuss the next steps! Please feel free to pass on this posting to anyone you think might be a good fit;

Term: 2023/12/01– 2024/12/31

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of experience supporting multi-terabyte SAS environments (SAS 9.4 M7 and Viya 3.5) that are enterprise wide and serve multiple business units.
• Expert knowledge of SAS Base, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS DI Studio and SAS Management Console.
• Strong experience installing SAS 9.4/Viya software and patches in AWS environment.
• Strong experience with UNIX OS.
• Good understanding of systems, networking, and storage.
• Experience in communicating across systems teams for their execution of SAS patching and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Active Directory integration for SAS implementations.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of relational database design and data warehouse best practices.
• Proactive thinking towards improving legacy system implementations.
• Aptitude and desire to learn other administrator tools in the team’s environment and area of responsibility for support.
• Able to deploy developer code from development environment to test and production environments in accordance with release schedules.

Description of Duties:

• Support and maintain existing multi-terabyte environment legacy environment’s SAS implementation.
• Work with developers to assist in troubleshooting and deploying code via release schedule.
• Coordinate with systems team for their implementation of OS patches, SAS patches, Upgrade, SSL update, License renewal across the enterprise.
• Look for improvements in the legacy environment to add automation or improve efficiency.

Remote Work