SAS Cloud Operations Administrator

Job Family: Cloud Platform Administrator

Business Title: SAS Cloud Operations Administrator

As a Cloud Platform Administrator for the SAS Cloud team in SAS’s Cloud and Information Services (CIS) division, you will be responsible for all aspects of our hosted and remote managed SAS application environments. You will work collaboratively with customers, analysts, developers, and implementation team members to deliver world class SAS service.

You will support the team with training, expertise, mentoring, and best practices related to enterprise application technology, architecture, and support. You will work with global R&D, Product, Technical Support, global PSD/Partners, and CIS teams to drive customer satisfaction and ensure service quality across all our hosted and remote managed customer environments.

You will lead the team in efforts to improve quality, efficiency, and automation around service delivery tasks. A keen eye for continuous improvement and a passion to drive it in all aspects of the job are required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Deliver excellent customer service using a customer first and continuous improvement mindset.

• Provide hands-on administration, maintenance, and installation of SAS Enterprise software and solutions.

• Provide support for global PSD/Partner delivered ETL and automations.

• Well versed with SAS 9.4 Grid solution, Scripting & Viya 3.5

• Viya 4 Admin experience.

• SAS Product Hotfix analysis and implementation.

• Manage day-to-day work through SAS Cloud ticketing systems using CIS best practices for ticket update quality and frequency.

• Use IT Service Management best practices for change, incident, and problem management to meet and support Service Level Agreement requirements SAS Cloud customers.

• Create and maintain service documentation including runbooks, knowledge base articles, and wiki content.

• Configure, manage, monitor, and debug mid-tier software.

• Manage, monitor, and maintain container-based applications deployed in cloud container services.

• Develop tools and software to manage SAS and third-party software.

• Diagnose, document, report, and resolve system problems.

• Work directly with external customers and interface with other support teams and vendors.

• On-call rotation (May be in Future – if required)

Client Specific Responsibilities – Mandatory:

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  Availability for Weekly Change Window (Green zone) support/execution of Changes.

• Scope: Dev/UAT and COB-Disaster Recovery during Thursday-Friday.

• Thursday - Change window scope/plan review.

• Green zones change implementation with team.

• Documentation update on Jira and Confluence.

• Incident or change work for customer that does not require green zone.

• Working Hours - US EST Time zone – 8 AM to 4 PM – (IST – 5.30 PM to 1.30 AM)

• Day light saving Changes to be observed as required.

• On call availability for weekends and public holidays.

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Provide service leadership for local teams by managing service queues and assigning tickets based on SAS Cloud procedures.

• Serve as technical escalation support for other team members.

• Contribute to overall service quality by identifying or leading efforts that reduce time, reduce toil, and/or improve customer experience with SAS Cloud services.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative fields, such as Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

• 12+ years of technical experience including:

  • 8+ Years of experience in SAS Administration, Deployment, integration

  • 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes / CaaS

  • 4+ years of experience Enterprise Platform Support

  • 6+ years of experience in systems support, user support, customer support, consulting, or training for enterprise class software and/or hardware.

  • 5+ years of experience with UNIX or Linux supporting enterprise class applications.

Preferences:

• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms like MS Azure, AWS, GCP, or OpenShift

• Experience with Python, Ansible, or Kubernetes

• Scripting experience (bash, PowerShell, etc.)

• Installing, using and administrating SAS software and solutions

• Programming in SAS

• Deploying and managing JavaEE web applications.

• Java or Web development experience

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.