SAS 9.3/9.4 ADMINISTRATOR

Job description

Mission Consultancy Services Malaysia is looking for an experienced SAS 9.3/9.4 administrator and technical expert in installation, configuration, and maintenance of SAS Enterprise BI Server and also provide End User Support for various SAS products (SAS EBI, EM, EDM or ESP) and also liaise with the In Country and Regional SAS support teams.

This position is for one of our clients which is one of the largest Malaysian Commercial Bank and you will be working in Bank’s premises, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

JOB ROLE

The SAS Platform Administrator/Architect will be responsible for providing overall SAS platform Architecture and Administrative support. Primary duties include maintenance, enhancements installation and support quick architecture changes for SAS Products (EBI, EM, ESP, EG). Also includes providing SAS platform security management, SAS application and underlying infrastructure support and ensuring processes are aligned and complaint with internal policies as well as regulatory requirements.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Routine administration, monitoring, maintenance, and tuning of the SAS Enterprise BI server (9.3/9.4) Platform and knowledge in SAS applications (SAS EBI, EM, EDM or ESP)

• Hands on experience in supporting for SAS maintenance, installation, upgrades, user support, resolving technical issues, working with SAS technical support team, Internal IT and provided technical support to operation team for automation and deployment of solutions.

• Provide leadership and direction with respect to architecture, design, and implementation for the SAS Platform

• Design solutions to reduce the operational and management complexity of the platform and to increase reliability and performance

• Perform new installations and upgrades as needed and routinely apply hot fixes

• Design, implement, and maintain platform security through SAS metadata and Windows OS

• Manage automated job scheduling

• Perform platform capacity planning

• Lead efforts to provide SAS technical and programming support to users
• Collaborate with IT and database administrators to support ongoing operations

QUALIFICATIONS :

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a SAS Administrator for a multi-tier SAS Platform in a Linux and Windows environment

• Hands-on experience on SAS 9.3, SAS 9.4 GRID Administration having SAS Metadata Server, SAS Application server, SAS Object spawner, SAS Connect server, SAS Olap server, AS Connect server, SAS Content server.

• Having good experience in working on Linux environment and Linux commands.

• Experience in working on SAS standalone and GRID having multiple node GRID Environment.

• Excellent knowledge of SAS Enterprise server platform using SAS Management Console.

• Good installation and configuration of SAS Metadata Server, SAS Application Server and Mid-tier server.

• Extensive install, configure and support experience in SAS/Access interface to Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Teradata and Hadoop.

• Excellent experience in troubleshooting issues related to SAS Enterprise guide, SAS Enterprise miner, SAS DI studio and other SAS components.

• Experience in migrations and user migration from old server to new server.

• Experience in applying hot fixes on the SAS Components.

• Excellent knowledge on SAS license Renewals.

• Excellent knowledge in USERS, GROUPS AND LIBRARIES creation.

• Good knowledge on client web-based applications like sas studio and sas web report studio.

• Excellent support to analytics groups for all the issues related to connecting SAS Servers using SAS Components.

• Good hands –on experience in dealing with SAS server restarts.

• Good hands on experience in dealing with SAS Webservers hosting various SAS applications

• Advanced knowledge of Base SAS, SQL, and the SAS macro language (at the SAS Certified Advanced Programmer level)

• Experience with data quality, data management, and ETL

• Banking or Financial Services Experience Preferred

• BS in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Math or related fields

SALARY :

• RM 7,000.00-10,000.00 per month