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SAS Administrator - Onsite, OH
Job in
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 43224, USA
Listed on 2026-02-07
Listing for:
Ocean Blue Solutions Inc
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-07
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
IT Consultant, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
In person, downtown Columbus, 5x week
OverviewODM SAS Administrator role for the State of Ohio. The position involves designing SAS solutions (such as SAS Viya and EBI), advising stakeholders, implementing architectures, coordinating cross-team projects, and supporting SAS users across development and production environments. On-site interviews and onsite work are required.
Responsibilities- Design SAS solutions, such as SAS Viya and EBI, considering infrastructure, file structure, and high availability.
- Advise stakeholders on SAS solution and implementation decisions.
- Implement SAS solutions based on agreed-upon architecture/design.
- Coordinate implementation projects across server, storage, and networking teams.
- Guide and support SAS users in code and report development.
- Prepare and execute deployment plans across Dev, Test, and Prod environments.
- Establish best practices for SAS implementation and support.
- Provide and oversee SAS support including user administration, monitoring, capacity management, and troubleshooting.
- Drive SAS support activities across server, storage, and networking teams.
- Train and coach backup SAS administrator.
- Create automated processing jobs on the SAS Server to meet business user needs.
- Work with internal provisioning authorization teams to keep SAS access in conformance with agency policy and auditing standards.
- Provide reports, metrics, and presentations to various teams, groups, and meetings as required.
- Create and architecture diagrams with process flows when necessary.
- Create and maintain connectivity to disparate data sources (including Oracle, MS SQL, Hadoop, Impala, network shares, etc.).
- Facilitate data sharing and exchanges with internal and external entities.
- Continuously monitor production processes, fix issues, update tracker documents with issues, and report performance issues to management.
- Performance tuning on the SAS Server as required.
- Demonstrate familiarity with SAS applications and instruct users in their procedures.
- Understand and write SAS programs and diagnose coding errors and performance issues with SAS users.
- Create service tickets to fix production issues in cooperation with SAS Tech support and other state or external IT entities.
- Provide solutions to eliminate single points of failure.
- Perform system maintenance, patches, upgrades, and data backups, as necessary.
- Collaborate with SAS Institute staff to provide information and requirements for fixes, remediations, enhancements, planning, changes, upgrades, design requirements, and performance issues.
- Research and provide recommendations to management for SAS Server, SAS client, or SAS user issues or desires.
- Implement, install, and configure software as requested; coordinate with AIX admin as necessary.
- Keep abreast of SAS analytical tools and functionality (Forecast Studio, Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, PC SAS and other tools).
- Monitor SAS Enterprise BI servers and diagnose/troubleshoot SAS Server performance issues.
- Provision access for users and groups on SAS Servers (and AIX Servers) in accordance with ODM governance procedures and requirements.
- Create and run AIX scripts and jobs for server provisioning and administration.
- Perform server patching and maintenance as necessary.
- Provide sizing inputs and requirements during architecture/system design to ensure system specifications meet anticipated workload.
- 8+ years of experience with SAS Enterprise BI Server administration.
- 2+ years of experience with SAS Viya platform administration.
- 8+ years of experience installing SAS BI server from scratch on a multitier platform.
- Design and configure SAS internal folder structures to facilitate user access and provisioning.
- 4+ years of experience in creating and running AIX scripts and jobs for provisioning and administration.
- 4+ years of experience performing server patching and maintenance.
- 2+ years of experience in SAS VIYA administration and architect capacity.
- Provide management reports from both the SAS server and the AIX OS upon request.
- Strong knowledge and practice implementing standard security policies and procedures for SAS Server and SAS clients.
- Regularly provide access for SAS users and…
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