Sas Cloud Administrator

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**Nice to meet you**

We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Working collaboratively with customers, analysts, developers and implementation team members to administer, manage, diagnose, debug, design, and prototype SAS and third-party enterprise class software systems, to deliver world class SAS service.
- Drive customer satisfaction & ensure service quality across all our hosted and remote managed customer environments.
- Working with global R&D, Product, Technical Support, and CIS teams to drive customer satisfaction and ensure a keen eye for continuous improvement, quality, efficiency, and automation with a passion to drive it in all aspects of the job.
- Use IT Service Management best practices for change, incident, and problem management to meet and support Service Level Agreement requirements SAS Cloud customers.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Managing the administration, maintenance, and installation of SAS Enterprise software and solutions.
- Provide pre
- and post-implementation documentation.
- Engineer solutions to ensure scalability and reliability.
- Integrate SAS software with systems and other third-party software.
- Configure, manage, monitor and debug mid-tier software such as tcServer, JBoss, etc.
- Ensure SAS Cloud standards and best practices are adhered to and validated.
- Monitor, Diagnose, document, report, and resolve system problems raised by the customers and internal stakeholders.
- Work directly with external customers and interface with other support teams and vendors.

**Reporting to**
- Manager of SAS Cloud Operations

**Expected Experience and Background**

4+ years of technical experience including at least 3 of the 5 below:

- 1+ years of experience Enterprise Platform Support
- 1+ years of experience in systems support, user support, customer support, consulting, or training for enterprise class software and/or hardware.
- 1+ years of experience in Cloud implementation/migration projects.
- 1+ Experience in ETL Operations

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience in Azure is preferred, while experience with other leading cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) is advantageous.
- Demonstrated experience on ITSM tools like JIRA, ServiceNow etc.
- ITIL certification preferred.
- Python and Ansible for automation.
- Kubernetes.
- Scripting experience (bash, powershell, etc).
- Installing and using SAS software and solutions.
- Programming in SAS.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

**Additional Skills and Abilities**:

- Understanding of security, performance, server design, cross-platform architectures, SAS products, SAS solutions, storage, networking, and enterprise hardware.
- Proficiency with Linux system administration tasks including configuration, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Ability to write scripts or software programs that automate system and software administrations tasks.
- Familiarity with fundamental networking / distributed computing environment concepts.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work well with internal and external customers.
- Strong analytic, inductive, and deductive reasoning skills
- Ability to independently learn how to use new facilities quickly from supplied documentation.
- Understands the interdependencies between multiple systems and software within a computing infrastructure.
- Understanding of complex system architectures and infrastructures

**Travel**

SAS Offers a hybrid approach to working. Travel is expected to client meetings and SAS offices when needed.

**Diverse and Inclusive**

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture - it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.#SAS SASCLOUD

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