Monday, August 1, 2011

SAS Administrator

KBS Consultants

New Job:SAS Administrator

Job Description

SAS Administrator will provide support for a SAS Unix server application
environment. The candidate will be an experienced SAS administrator with
skills for a SAS 9.2.x environment. This person will also participate in the
production software deployments, upgrades, capacity planning, backup
strategies, as well as software/hardware integration planning. The person
will coordinate troubleshooting and make recommendations for the
configuration of the SAS application.

Responsibilities:

• R esearch best practices and provide pre- and post-implementation
documentation.

•Perform daily tasks within the scope of SAS/Unix system administration,
including but not limited to, file system performance monitoring, reviewing
OS patch levels when required. Maintain awareness of new SAS releases,
patches and upgrades. Install as appropriate.

•Work closely with SAS user areas to assure that their needs are being met
and train business users in established standards and procedures for SAS
server environment.

•Installation, administration, and support of the software in conjunction
with SAS on UNIX.

•Monitor storage growth and work with user areas to develop purge criteria.
Coordinate with other IT groups on performance, storage issues, etc.
Coordinate with SAS ''power users'' to schedule production loads/jobs.

•Create and maintain user profiles and groups consistent with security
restrictions and performance considerations. Coordinate with IT Security as
required.

•Document operational processes and recovery procedures.

•Maintain environment configuration information.

•Participate on project teams.

•Work independently to resolve issues and escalate to management and other
teams as needed.

•Administer user access and security on the system.

•Installation of SAS software on client desktops if applicable. Work with
Desktop support team to assure correct users' desktop/application
configuration.

•Performance tuning of both Server and Workstations.

•Implementation of upgrades and patches to both Server and Workstations.

•Perform code reviews to ensure proper design, standard, content and
functionality.

•Monitoring of servers, databases and workstations to ensure availability
and efficiency.

•Database capacity and utilization planning.

•Archiving and back-up planning.

•Documentation of SAS server applications, workstation application and
security policies in force.

•Disaster recovery planning.

•Available to provide 24 X7 support as required.


Please send updated resume to kbschennai@kbsconsultants.com

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Contact us:
KBS Consultants
No, 5 Natesan Road
Ashoknagar, Chennai
600 083 India
Ph: +91 44 24895341 or
+91 44 23719622
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Email Address:
kbschennai@kbsconsultants.com

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