We have a Contract To Hire position for “Lead SAS Administrator” with one of our direct clients in Atlanta, Georgia for an initial contract duration of 6 months.
No third-party candidates are considered for this position.
s and all those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.
Please contact at (678) 381-1400 Local Candidates Preferred.
Video Interview is mandatory.
We are seeking a highly motivated, forward-thinking Lead SAS Administrator to support the enterprise Collaboration and Support Center Manufacturing excellence group and the Decision Analytics Group.
The role supports the SAS platform used for developing custom machine learning-based Analytics and AI solutions used across 150 facilities within multiple divisions.
CSC and the Decision Analytics Group functions as a Center of Excellence for all things related to manufacturing and commercial transformation.
These groups create sustainable value and competitive advantage by leveraging analytics, information, technology, and actionable insights across the enterprise while focusing on futuristic possibilities of analytics.
This role will have the opportunity to leverage the latest Big Data, Cloud, and Analytics technologies and partner with our operations, engineering, and data science community to expand our modeling and decision-making capabilities focused on asset health, asset optimization, and process optimization.
A Day in The Life Typically Includes Responsible for overall availability and health of SAS environment, performing system monitoring, log analysis, performance analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting any system-related issues Administer SAS platform by controlling security, accessibility, connections to data sources Serves as an escalation point for production andor platform issues and acts as lead liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS environment Collaborate with SAS Technical Support to implement patches, upgrades, or configuration changes Collaborate with storage, server, LDAP, database, and other IT administrators to support ongoing operations for meeting the business needs via the SAS environment Serve as the Single Point of Contact for promotion activities.
Promote to ProductionDeployment Services (e.g., standards, code reviews, etc.) Proactively communicate directly with business representatives to extract requirements and review work in progress Work with cross-functional data scientist teams to create, implement, and deploy business solutions as needed SAS Solutions Architecture Develop and own the architecture with inputs from various Client groups.
Continue to develop deep technical knowledge of SAS products and integrations with other tools in the AI space Mentor and train junior developers as backup SAS admin On occasion work with on-call on resolving critical issues over the weekend or Afterhours Required Skills Bachelorrsquos degree in Computer ScienceEngineering (preferably Analytics, MIS, or Computer Science).
Masterrsquos degrees preferred Hands-on experience with SAS Viya Minimum 4 years experience administrating applications on Linux Servers Experience using SAS Management Console (SMC) and SAS Environment Manager Creating Users Groups and Roles Data Concepts (ETL, near-real-time streaming, data structures, metadata, and workflow management) Programming Scripting (Python, Shell) Experience in SQL programming and advanced data analysis skills Self-starter that can work under general direction in a highly collaborative, team-based environment Strong verbal and written communication skills Preferred Skills Experience with SAS Automation Code Management Tools (GitGitHub, TFS) Knowledge of Data Analytics in AWS platform Experience in the manufacturing domain is a plus Familiarity with AgileScrumKanbanDevOps methodologies and software development principles