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SAS Admin Engineer

  • Location: Edinburgh
  • £ Salary: Outside IR35 per day
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted over 2 years ago

  • Sector: Business Transformation
  • Contact: James Taylor
  • Duration: 3 months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Expiry Date: 04 December 2021
  • Job Ref: JN -112021-465343

Hydrogen Group are currently looking for a SAS Admin Engineer to join a consultancy that have an end client that is a financial services client. The role is a contract role that is for an initial 3 months with potential extensions. The role is a remote position but you may have to attend site once in the contract. The site is in Edinburgh. The role is paying up to £425 per day outside of IR35.

The company are looking for people that are either British nationals or who hold a valid visa to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

The SAS Admin Engineer will navigate stopping and starting the service within a Cloud environment, overseeing production to enable the service to run. The SAS Admin Engineer will work with a team of engineers and Lead engineer who will engage with SAS and will be required to be on call overnight once a month.

The SAS Admin Engineer will have experience of AWS Cloud, raising SAS tickets and building SAS on EC2 instances. Monitoring, logging and troubleshooting SAS servers through SAS EVM and AWS native technologies. Be able to proactively identify issues and resolution to implementation.

Key accountabilities:

· Back-up and restoration of SAS environments

· Monitoring, logging and troubleshooting SAS servers through SAS EVM and AWS native technologies

· Proactively identify issues and resolution to implementation

Essential Key skills/knowledge/experience:

· Administration of SAS 9.4 software and components in a production environment

· Strong understanding and experience of SAS GRID and GRID Manager

· Experience with managing, monitoring and updating SAS platform within an AWS/Azure environment

Desirable skills/experience:

· Strong SAS administration background with experience of Linux and / or Windows Server including scripting.

· Experience in Financial sector

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