SAS Administrator Job Description
SAS administrator
provides a SAS weekly, monthly and quarterly SAS activity logs (Microsoft Excel format) with activities related to the SAS Platform Administration including but not limited to: configuration, user, application bug fixes and security patches.
SAS Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Overall responsibility for the effective operation of the SAS Analytics Environment
Work with users providing advice on the best practice for the creation of analytics processes, programs or models to best utilize the SAS environment
Via SAS Management Console, control user access to various parts of the SAS system, granting permissions to read, write, create or view reports and data within the system – ensure that users see only the information that they are authorized to access
Working with the Development
Responsible for the maintenance of in-place programs
Manage all SAS product installations and upgrades
Configure SAS products and SAS output channels
Research and make recommendations on hardware and SAS software
Investigate, escalate, and resolve all SAS production support incidents in accordance with the Production Support Process
Maintain and execute disaster recovery procedures as needed
SAS Administrator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for SAS Administrator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAS, CISSP, SSCP, ITIL, SCRUM, SSL
Education for SAS Administrator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the SAS administrator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Technical, Education, Engineering, Administration, Mathematics, Information Systems, Business, Statistics
Skills for SAS Administrator
Desired skills for SAS administrator include:
Architecture and resources
Current and emerging technologies/products/trends related to architectural solutions
Industry standards
Methodologies and SAS foundation technologies
508 accessibility standards
Capacity
Change IT
Continuity
Microsoft Office Suite and Visio applications
Participate in design process
Desired experience for SAS administrator includes:
6+ years of experience supporting multi-terabyte SAS environments that are enterprise wide and serve multiple business units
Strong knowledge of relational database design and data warehouse best practices
Expert SQL skills, Oracle, MySQL, Teradata
Expert knowledge of SAS analytic capabilities that include statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling and data mining
Good understanding of systems, networking, and storage
Experience installing SAS software and patches in UNIX environment
SAS Administrator Examples
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SAS Administrator Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a SAS administrator. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for SAS administrator
- Administer, schedule, and maintain production jobs for Analytics and Business Intelligence departments
- Participate in monthly assessment of production support incidents
- Participate in technical code reviews
- Present information on technical topics
- Participate in creation and revision of coding standards, documentation and shared templates
- Vendor Relationship Ownership
- Provides engineering leadership and oversight on design, engineering and development of information technology solutions
- Responsible for the most complex, multi-site, multi domain activities and integration
- Partners with IT leadership on engineering related issues and strategies
- Administer SAS platform (SAS EBI, SAS VA, SAS MDM) installed on Windows server and RHEL
Qualifications for SAS administrator
- Experience analyzing business and system requirements and building SAS solutions that meet needs
- Ability to conduct impact analysis and determine critical path processes
- Strong communication skills to present technical information to business stakeholders
- Experience with BI tools like Micro Strategy, Tableau will be a plus
- Interfacing with other groups such as security, network, compliance, storage
- Experience monitoring and troubleshooting using a variety of open source and proprietary toolsets
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a SAS administrator. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for SAS administrator
- Manage Metadata security and Metadata backup/restore
- Define and troubleshoot connections to Oracle, SQL, SAP, Salesforce platforms (operating system + SAS)
- SAS Visual Analytics administration
- Solve or coordinate the solving of incidents and tickets
- Apply SAS licenses
- File systems / partitions cleanup
- Logs monitoring
- Troubleshoots hardware, software, or performance problems on the systems network
- Configuring, managing, monitoring and debugging mid-tier software such as tcServer, JBoss
- Working directly with external customers
Qualifications for SAS administrator
- Defining servers Administering web applications
- Interfacing with other support teams and vendors
- Work with the SAS user community
- Ability to manage mid-to-large SAS development projects
- Assists in definition of time tables and tasks
- Experience reading through SAS logs to work through problems finding root causes and rectifying
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of SAS administrator. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for SAS administrator
- Maintain a SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS) implementation, performing regular maintenance tasks including applying application updates, making configuration changes, and managing user accounts
- Work independently or as a member of a team to troubleshoot system issues
- Create and maintain system documentation including procedures, policies, plans
- Apply patches and configuration changes to Linux systems and SAS applications, maintaining compliance with DoD directives
- Monitor backup logs to ensure completion
- Monitor drop box three times daily
- Provides remote assistance to users in accessing and utilizing systems
- Interface directly with customers to ensure their issues are resolved
- Lead and manage the 1800Flowers.com SAS environment
- Make configuration changes and implement upgrades as needed
Qualifications for SAS administrator
- Experience monitoring and managing the SAS/GRID environment
- Minimum 4 years experience with SAS administration on Windows and UNIX platform
- Total experience should be over 6 years, preferably within financial services industry
- Create SAS application server contexts, apply SAS software patches, update SAS software licenses, manage SAS metadata, and add groups and users
- Understand client and mid-tier applications that are installed and support them
- Understand SAS server processes and how to manage them
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of SAS administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for SAS administrator
- Recommend and review application changes for reporting and campaign execution code
- Assists in the design of data models and physical databases, data dictionaries and schemas Installs, upgrades and tests database software
- Troubleshoots database issues Monitors database environment
- Develops a knowledge of the operational database and data structure
- Proven track record of database development, design or administration
- Work with Data Governance for the documentation of consistent data definitions and business rules
- Understanding of security requirements
- Develop standard calculations and derivations for use by analysts within CCRM
- Experience with banking/finance is preferred but a strong aptitude for learning is also considered
- Familiar with mainframe loan servicing and origination systems
Qualifications for SAS administrator
- SAS folders and permissions
- Ability to install hot fixes, service packs, upgrades add-on software components
- Monitor resource consumption and work with SAS software users to diagnose and address performance issues
- Know subject matter such as transaction monitoring / AML, preferred
- Can work independently and with group
- Serve as the subject matter expert for all day-to-day activities related to SAS administration, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, diagnostics and configuration
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of SAS administrator. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for SAS administrator
- Install hot fixes, service packs, upgrades add-on SAS components
- As an On-Site SAS Administrator, you will assist the customer to maximize value of SAS technologies and ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction
- Developing and creating security schemes
- Ensures the overall health and wellness of the SAS platform
- Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS)
- Ensures the platform is positioned for compliance with Catholic Health Initiatives IT policies and standards and agreed upon service levels
- Makes wise decisions regarding prioritization of work assignments
- Work with clients to install and configure SAS software according to their business and architectural needs, including SAS Data Integration Studio, LSF, SAS Data Quality, SAS Business Data Network, SAS Studio, SAS Viya, and SAS Visual Analytics
- User onboarding, code, promotion, provide end user support and implement configuration changes as needed
- Submit appropriate tickets, change controls for the changes
Qualifications for SAS administrator
- Schedule and coordinate all planned outages of the SAS server and assess the impact of any non-SAS software (hardware, storage, operating system and network related) related changes on the SAS server
- Support all areas of SAS platform, assisting with problems pertaining to accessing the SAS server(s) or data, including acting as a liaison to SAS technical support
- Develop processes for reporting the SAS platform’s utilization, availability, and monitoring
- Develop processes for data archival and retention on SAS servers
- Design, implement, and maintain the security framework (access rights and privileges, user roles / groups, SSO)
- Support desktop client tools for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS add-on for Microsoft Office