Required: SAS Admin at NY or Los Angeles, CA

Hi Partner,

For immediate consideration please reply to sameer@rekruiteasy.net

Position: SAS Admin

Location: New York or Los Angeles, CA

Duration: 6 months+

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the overall health of the SAS Grid platform which uses IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) and includes:
• Base SAS
• Office Analytics
• Enterprise Miner
• Forecast Server
• Visual Analytics
• Access to ODBC, PCFF, Hadoop, Teradata and Oracle

·         Monitor the SAS servers for resource utilization and act on incidents in coordination with internal NBCUniversal Infrastructure teams

• Apply maintenance releases, upgrades and hot fixes as required for all products in the platform in coordination with internal NBCUniversal Infrastructure teams
• Design solutions to reduce the operational and management complexity of the platform
• Design, implement, and maintain platform security
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot SAS servers and processes, including error messages

·         Create and execute platform capacity and disaster recovery planning working with NBCUniversal infrastructure teams

• Serve as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues
• Provide guidance and assistance to SAS developers on operational and technical issues
• Establish best practices and guidelines for usage of the SAS platform 

Skills and experience:

·         Ability to configure SAS servers to run within a SAS GRID environment leveraging GPFS

·         Experience reading SAS logs to determine GRID errors and whether GRID is functioning correctly

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal to explain technical issues regarding SAS
• Firm understanding of the capabilities of the SAS analytical procedures with experience troubleshooting issues
• Experience installing, configuring, optimizing and maintaining SAS Grid

·         Knowledge of the parallel processing and job submission capabilities of SAS GRID in relation to usage of SAS Enterprise Miner and/or SAS Enterprise Guide

·         Experience using SAS Management Console (SMC)

• Creating Users / Groups / Roles
• Creating and securing folders
• Experience with Project and Custom repositories
• Creating, deploying and scheduling jobs
• Experience with SAS Configuration Wizard to administer SAS deployment
• Experience monitoring Logs from within SMC
• Experience defining Servers and changing server definitions
• Experience creating SAS libraries
• Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and environment files
• Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security
• Ability to implement a security scheme in SAS and interfacing it with OS level security

Regards,

Sameer

sameer@rekruiteasy.net

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