SAS System Administrator / Engineer (SAS 9.4)
Location: Sheffield (with remote working)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract
IR35 Status: Engagement via Umbrella only
An SAS System Administrator / Engineer with experience of performing SAS 9.4 installations, platform and security setups is required to join a financial services client. This role will be based in Sheffield with remote working on a 6-month contract with the view to extend.
About the role:
You will be migrating data and content from legacy to a new platform. This will include cluster expansions and HA/DR setups.
Key Responsibilities:
As part of your role, you will be responsible for:
- Performing SAS 9.4 installations
- SAS platform and GRID administration
- Performance Tuning of SAS clusters
- Migrating Data and content from legacy to a new platform
- Providing application migration and warranty support to developers
- Automating procedural tasks
Experience:
To succeed in this role, you should have:
- 3 years+ relevant platform engineering experience
- Over 8 years overall IT experience
- Extensive experience of SAS 9.x platform and an in-depth understanding
- Hands-on experience of SAS configuration, installation, implementation, and application migration
- Relevant experience of maintaining and supporting SAS Client / Server products, infrastructure, and services, working towards globally and future state aligned solutions.
- An in-depth understanding of the SAS Platform architecture and GRID LSF administration experience
- RDBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL knowledge desirable
- Linux administration experience
- An understanding of shell scripting, integrated authentication stacks (AD / Linux integration, Krb and ldap based directory services, SSO identity services), file systems, security, secure shell, permissions, process management, regular maintenance tasks.
- Experience of debugging issues with core services
- Experience of interpreting and parsing system and application logs, monitoring and debugging issues with core services.
Work Pattern:
- You should be available to work the shift pattern required for this role such as out of hours on call.
Qualifications:
- SAS Certified Platform Administrator or other relevant qualification - desirable
If this role is of interest to you, please submit your CV in the first instance.
