6 months initial contract

Fully remote

Outside IR35

Responsibilities:

As a SAS Platform Administrator, you will be responsible for ensuring the overall availability, performance, and security of SAS tools and software environments.

Your key responsibilities include:

1. Deployment Expertise:
• Demonstrate deployment experience and skills on CENT OS.
• Manage the deployment of SAS tools across development, QA, production, and disaster recovery environments.
2. SAS Software Administration:
• Perform SAS software administration tasks, including software configuration, updates, patches, hotfixes, and license renewals on Linux/Redhat (RHEL) platforms.
• Execute capacity planning, provide metrics, and offer performance tuning recommendations for SAS Platforms.
3. Platform Performance and Reliability:
• Take actions to achieve and maintain optimal SAS platform performance, reliability, and availability.
• Identify and address bottlenecks in production systems, providing effective solutions.
4. Security Management:
• Design, implement, and maintain platform security using SAS Metadata, Linux operating systems, LDAP/Active Directory, and data warehousing environments.
• Manage metadata identities, users, groups, and roles to ensure secure access.
5. Configuration and Testing:
• Utilize SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, libraries, and metadata objects.
• Configure and test communication between SAS and multiple relational databases.
6. Subject Matter Expertise:
• Act as a SAS subject matter expert and liaison to SAS users and IT teams.
• Serve as an escalation point for production and platform issues, collaborating with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues.
7. Collaboration and Support:
• Collaborate with storage, server, LDAP, database, and other IT administrators to support ongoing operations and meet business needs through the SAS environment.
8. Documentation and Compliance:
• Create and update policies, procedures, and documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
9. On-Call Production Support:
• Provide on-call production support through a rotation schedule to address any platform-related issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience in SAS platform administration and deployment on CENT OS.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux/Redhat (RHEL) platforms and SAS software.
• Strong understanding of SAS Metadata, LDAP/Active Directory, and data warehousing environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK without Visa sponsorship.

Candidates must submit a CV for consideration.