Hands-on experience as a SAS administrator of the 9.4 suite in a Windows environment performing system monitoring, log analysis, performance analysis, performance tuning and capacity planning.
Acts as a SAS subject matter expert and liaison to SAS users and IT.
As a member of IT, primary user base consists of Finance, Accounting, and Corporate Business Intelligence users, among other core business functions.
Performs client installations & troubleshooting, uses SAS Management Console to define connections to data sources, define libraries, and create metadata objects and folder structures and manages permissions to metadata folders.
Designs, implements, and maintains platform security via SAS Metadata, Windows operating systems, LDAP/Active Directory, and data warehousing environments and manages metadata identities, users, groups, and roles.
Configures and tests communication between SAS and multiple relational databases and collaborates with storage, server, LDAP, DBAs and other IT administrators to support ongoing operations for meeting the business needs via the SAS environment.
Assists vendor with SAS software administration; including software updates, patches, and hotfixes as needed on Microsoft Windows Server platforms and performs SAS software configuration and license renewals as needed on Microsoft Windows Server platforms.
Serves as an escalation point for production and/or platform issues and acts as a liaison with SAS Technical Support to resolve outstanding issues within the SAS environments.
Perform bi-annual systems audit for all SAS environments for internal and external auditors.
Creates policies and procedures and updates documentation to meet compliance requirements.
Responsible for all integration points to and from the SAS environment, specifically with our Oracle Hyperion application.
Cross train other client’s IT team members so we have an adequate support model and aren’t relying on single individual for all SAS related items.
Provides SAS Platform capacity planning, metrics and performance tuning recommendations. Executes actions necessary to achieve and maintain optimum SAS platform performance, reliability and availability.