Reston, VA Contract Jan 30, 2024
SAS GRID Administrator -
Client is looking for an
SAS GRID Administrator that will be playing a key role in upgrading SAS Grid on-prem projects and 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 support for SAS Grid platforms both on-prem and 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
- Perform a key role in upgrading SAS Grid clusters from SAS 9.4 M4 to SAS 9.4 M8 and migrate all applications and users to the new upgraded environment
- 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 3.x/4
- 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)