SAS Administrator at Englewood, NJ

[Surendra Tummalacherla]

Dear Partner,

 

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Job Title: SAS Administrator 

Duration: 6 Months 

# of Positions: 1 

Position Type: Contract  

Location: Englewood, NJ

Responsibilities:

Ensure the overall health of the SAS Grid platform which uses IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS) and includes:

1. Base SAS
2. Office Analytics
3. Enterprise Miner
4. Forecast Server
5. Visual Analytics
6. 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

Thanks,

Surendra Tummalacherla

SoftHQ

Sr.US IT Recruiter

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