SAS Developer

Position –SAS Developer with AWS
Duration- 12 Months
Location –Reston, VA  (Need a local candidate within 75 miles of Virginia)

Duties & Responsibilities
• Provide day-to-day operation support for SAS Grid platforms both on-prem and on AWS cloud, and provide technical support to developers, researchers and analysts
• Effectively work with business analysts, development leads, researchers and technical teams to provide guidance on using appropriate SAS tools and SAS coding techniques, statistical methodologies and data manipulation as required
• Perform a key role in upgrading SAS Grid on-prem cluster from SAS 9.4 M4 to SAS 9.4 M8 and migrating applications and users to the new upgraded environment
• Develop & maintain technical documentation including system diagrams & operational procedures
• Perform patching, upgrades, and installation of Hotfixes across the environments as necessary
• Troubleshoot installation issues, user issues on SAS AWS and On-prem Clusters
• Maintain and develop Knowledge Base Articles and Wiki Pages to document standard work and troubleshooting guides
• Review and understand SAS logs to determine GRID errors and whether GRID is functioning correctly
• Backing up and restoring SAS within a GRID environment
• Assessing and optimizing performance of the SAS GRID environment
• Managing all GRID nodes from a centralized location
• Adding nodes to the GRID environment, or reconfiguring nodes

Required qualifications:
• 5 years of hands-on production experience and knowledge on using and troubleshooting issues with SAS Development and Management Tools
• 3 years of production experience with core AWS services
• 3 years production experience with cloud orchestration tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform
• 2 years of production experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines in systems like Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
• Strong working experience on Linux environment
• Technical HandsOn with shell scripting
• 4 years of experience with RDBMS, MSSQL Server, PGSQL, AWS DB Services
• 4 years of experience with SAS Configuration Wizard to administer SAS deployment
• Experience defining Servers, updating server definitions and monitoring Logs from within SMC
• Experience with SAS Environment Manager, SAS Grid Manager, SASGSUB, SAS Grid Management Services, LSF Process Manager, Platform RTM, Starting and stopping servers
• Understanding server security and folders and how they relate to SAS folders and security
• Knowledge of SAS configuration files such as autoexec, configuration and environment files
• Experience configuring SAS for High Availability within GRID environment – including Metadata Server
• Working with SAS GRID-related high availability and failover requirements, including storage architecture and configuration (Amazon FSx for Lustre)
• Experience with and applying SAS GRID usage tracking, monitoring, alerts notification and load balancing
• Desired to have SAS Viya Administration experience

Key Competencies:
• Should possess the ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Knowledgeable in the AWS Well Architected Framework
• General knowledge of project management and proactive self-starter
• Excellent communication skills and be effective writing skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and able to meet deadlines
• Ability to independently research and resolve technical problems in a complex IT environment with local and remote groups

Tools/Skillset:
• SAS Grid Software 9.4
• SAS Viya 3.x/4
• SAS Enterprise Guide 7.x
• SAS Studio 3.x
• SAS/ACCESS
• SAS/Connect
• SQL, Python, R, Shell Scripting, Yaml, Json
• NOTE: Minimum of 5 years of SAS Grid Admin experience in SAS environment (500-1000 users)