SAS Administrator-Web Developer

Company: VDart, Inc.
Location: White Plains
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

VDart - We are a Global Information Technology Services & Workforce Solutions firm headquartered out of Atlanta, GA with presence in US, Canada, MX, UK, Belgium, Japan & India. Founded in 2007, Our team of over 2550+ professionals continually create impact for our customers worldwide in solving complex technology challenges with cutting edge technologies. We specialize in providing the Fortune 1000 companies, niche hard to find skills in technologies including Social, Mobile, Big Data Analytics, Data Sciences, Cyber Security, IoT, Cloud, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With delivery centers in the UK, Mexico, Canada, and India, we provide global workforce solutions to our customers covering EMEA, APAC & Americas. VDart is an award-winning organization recognized by Inc 5000 Hall of Fame; Atlanta Business Chronicle*s Fastest Growing Companies; NMSDC*s National Supplier of the Year; Ernst & Young*s Regional Entrepreneur of the Year and more. Role: SAS Administrator-Web Developer Location: White Plains, NY (100% Remote) Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire Description: Our client is seeking a full time SAS Administrator-Developer to work with our client, a HealthCare client. The client requires an experienced SAS Platform Administrator (Office Analytics) to administer a SAS 9.4 platform on a Windows OS. This position will be primary point of contact for administering client's SAS enterprise solution. The successful candidate will need 2+ years of SAS platform administration of SAS Office Analytics, Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio and Enterprise Miner. Additionally, the role will provide operational maintenance, enhancements, installation and support of a SAS 9.4 environment. Also in scope for this position is maintaining platform security management, SAS application and underlying infrastructure support (OS upgrades, storage monitoring, virtual web and database servers).The client would also prefer that the candidate has SAS development and web development skills and experience as well (So this will be essentially a dual role as a SAS administrator and SAS developer-web developer). QUALIFICATIONS - ESSENTIAL --- Bachelor's Degree --- SAS Administrator Essentials: --- At least 2 years of full time SAS Administration experience using SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio and SAS Enterprise Miner (Or SAS Viya). --- Skilled in the use of SAS Management Console 9.4 and Environment Manager --- Skilled in the administration of SAS Office Analytics products. --- Experience administrating three tier, multi-server environment. --- Proficient in Windows OS administration -- including commands, scripts, permissions, and file systems --- Perform and schedule regular backups of the Metadata Server and physical files; --- Implement best practices for backup processes. --- Ability to work in cross-function teams across operational disciplines. --- Good oral and written communication skills. --- Experience in technical infrastructure support and management, including installation of software and maintaining and enhancing a server environment for end users. --- Oversee and apply SAS maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as needed. --- Monitor utilization logs to assist in performance tuning of the SAS applications and server environments. --- Insure optimal system performance by monitor overall availability and performance of --- SAS server environments and take corrective actions as needed. --- Manage security model of User, Groups and Roles. --- Support individual end-users within the SAS community. --- Maintain or revise existing platform security via SAS Metadata and Server. --- Serve as an internal escalation resource for platform issues. --- Setting and monitoring scheduled jobs through Schedule Manager and LSF --- Actively engage in Change Management and Version Control SAS - Web-Developer Preferred Essentials: --- At least 5 years of experience working on complex software as a software developer. --- Proven experience developing web-based applications using SAS Studio. --- Knowledge of SAS Architecture and SAS Platform. --- Proven experience working with SQL and large-scale relational databases. --- Proven working knowledge of modern front-end web technologies, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSON. --- Ability to interpret and diagnose Java stack traces. --- Understanding of the software development lifecycle. --- Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills. --- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. --- Ability to work with people of varied technical backgrounds. --- Ability to handle deadlines in a multitasking environment. --- Experience developing web-based applications with SAS Viya a plus. MAJOR RESPONSIBILTIES/ACTIVITIES: --- Hands-on experience as a SAS administrator of the 9.4 suite in a Windows environment performing system monitoring, log analysis, performance analysis, performance tuning and capacity planning. --- Experience using SAS Management Console (SMC) and SAS Environment Manager. o Creating Users. Groups and Roles. o Creating and securing folders. o Experience Monitoring Logs from within SMC. o Experience defining Servers and changing server definitions. o Experience creating SAS, RDBMS libraries (ODBC) --- Server Skills. o Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security. o Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and environment files. o Starting and stopping servers. o Backup strategies and implementation. --- Security and Authentication (related to the access of source data within SAS on the SAS servers across the different business organizations as well as SAS integration with tools such as Active Directory/LDAP/) across multiple SAS products. o SAS/Access products and configuring to connect RDBMS servers. o SAS/Office Analytics o SAS/Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, SAS Enterprise Miner. --- Ability to install hot fixes, service packs, upgrades as well as add-on software components. --- Understand basic Windows commands that will enable you to monitor SAS jobs, ability to move around in a Windows environment as required for basic functioning of SAS and a good understanding of how Windows and SAS are integrated. --- Thorough understanding of SAS products and how they work together in an environment. --- Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security --- Experience in troubleshooting SAS Platform and client issues to root cause --- Write efficient code that is easy to understand, maintain, and extend. --- Ensure quality by creating and maintaining automated tests with extensive code coverage. --- Scope requirements, estimate effort, and help plan release schedules. --- Work closely with Analysts, Developers and End-Users to build, maintain, and support applications. --- Stay informed of rapidly changing applicable web technologies and incorporate those --- technologies into applications, as appropriate. --- Collaborate with teammates to continually improve the development process. --- Participate in peer code reviews and embrace constructive criticism of your own code. --- Good written and spoken communications skills in English and thought-leadership skills --- Responsible for the overall availability of the SAS tools and software environments. --- Administer, Maintain and tune the SAS Platform. --- Provides SAS Platform capacity planning, metrics and performance tuning recommendations. Executes actions necessary to achieve and maintain optimum SAS --- platform performance, reliability and availability. --- Acts as a SAS subject matter expert and liaison to SAS users and IT. --- Serves as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues and acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS --- environments. --- Collaborates with storage, server, LDAP, database and other IT administrators to support ongoing operations for meeting the business needs via the SAS environment. --- Identifies bottlenecks in production systems and provide solutions. --- Manage metadata identities, users, groups, and roles Key Skills: SAS administration, Web Development, SAS 9.4, SAS Office Analytics, Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, Enterprise Miner Referral Program: Ask our recruiting team about how you can be a part of our referral program. If you refer a candidate with this background and if the candidate accepts the role our team pays a generous referral. We are keen on networking and establishing a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership with you. We are Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. VDart Inc Alpharetta, GA Follow us on Twitter for the hottest Follow us on - provided by Dice

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