Data Integration Admin
As a Systems Developer for the MCS team in SASs Cloud and Information Services (CIS) division you will be responsible for all aspects of our MCS- Hosted and Remote Managed Service environments. You will be an advocate for SAS customers using your skills and expertise to ensure that customers realize the full value of their SAS investment.
You will work collaboratively with customers analysts developers and implementation team members to deploy manage diagnose debug design and prototype SAS and third-party enterprise-class software systems.
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 Product R&D Technical Support and other CIS teams to drive customer satisfaction and ensure service quality across all our MCS-Hosted and Remote Managed Service environments.
You will contribute and help 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 is required.
Individuals who excel in this role:
- Understand software development & how to read/write code or scripts
- Are familiar with deployment and integration methodologies and best practices
- Have worked in complex infrastructure environments with a variety of services working both independently and together
- Understands the interdependencies between multiple systems and software within a computing infrastructure
- know about security performance server design cross-platform architectures SAS products SAS solutions storage networking and enterprise hardware.
- Understands the interdependencies between multiple systems and software within a computing infrastructure
You will / Primary Responsibilities:
- As a Systems Developer for the Delivery Services team in SASs Cloud and Information Services (CIS) division a person should be responsible for Data Integration Services in our hosted environments.
- Should leverage deep technical skillset and knowledge to provide technical leadership guidance and support for customer engagements through the implementation of Data Integration Services.
- Integrate SAS software with systems and other third-party software
- Should work collaboratively with customers analysts developers and implementation team members to deliver world-class SAS service.
- Generate documentation for architecture installation and ongoing operational support of customer environments
- Should partner with Customer Success Manager to work through any technical obstacles the customer may experience.
- Should build the foundation for ongoing reliability by defining key performance metrics aligned to the customers success criteria. Through documentation automation and knowledge management you will enable global teams to respond quickly and efficiently to operational incidents.
- Should support the team with training expertise mentoring and best practices related to enterprise application technology architecture and support.
- Should work with global R&D Product Technical Support and CIS teams to drive customer satisfaction and ensure service quality across all our hosted and remotely managed customer environments.
Technologies you will work with on day one:
- External and integrated databases Oracle Postgres MSSQL MySQL Hadoop and others
- Data Migration Experience
- Azure blob and ADLS / Cloud - Azure Portal - BLOB
- PowerShell and Unix Shell scripting
- API-driven tools and software
- SAS - Base SAS SAS Management Console SAS Environment Manager
- SAS 9.4 & Viya Product Suites.
- Azure AWS and VMware-based cloud computing environments (compute storage networking etc.)
- Working on advanced authentication
- Containerized software applications and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
- ITIL management software - ServiceNow CMDB Jira Git
- Middleware / Web-based applications (tcserver apache JBoss etc.)
- Commercial OpenSource and custom monitoring/alerting tools Zabbix Prometheus Grafana
What were looking for / Profile Requirements:
- Curious Passionate Authentic and Accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
- Bachelors degree in a quantitative field preferably Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.
- Problem-solving skills Quick Learner and a can-do attitude.
- Strong analytic and deductive reasoning skills
- Data Migration Experience
- Awareness of Azure blob and ADLS
- Expert in PowerShell and Unix Shell scripting
- SAS Solutions integration with external data sources such as Oracle Snowflake Hadoop Teradata etc.
- SAS Data connectors for different types of DBs
- Analytical skills to resolve Network/connectivity issues
- Python scripting
- Attention to detail and accuracy - while maintaining a solid awareness of the big picture.
- Ability to communicate with global peers and management in a clear straightforward and effective way.
- Knowledge of all types of advanced authentication techniques and their integration with SAS Solution (OKTA AD SAML SCIM etc.)
- Third-party software installation and integration with SAS Software
- Azure / Cloud Technologies knowledge
- 3 years of technical experience including:
- 2 years of experience in Enterprise-class software Integrations installation & configuration.
- 1 years of experience in Integration Technologies Implementation support or consulting.
- 1 years of experience with UNIX or Linux supporting SAS or enterprise-class applications.
- 1 Years of Experience with implementing integrations with SAS on complex architectures within Cloud and Hosting Technologies (Microsoft Azure (Preferred) AWS etc...)
- Working & Expert knowledge of Solutions:
- Integration of SAS Products with different third-party tools and technologies
- Working knowledge of cloud services like Azure AWS and GCP and integrating them with Kubernetes.
- PowerShell and Unix Shell scripting
- Linux system administration tasks including configuration troubleshooting and automation.
Nice to have / Preferences:
- Kubernetes Docker
- Data Integration Technologies experience
- SAS 9.4 Viya Awareness or Certifications
- Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK SECURITY
- Know-how Authentication techniques and their integration along with debugging
- Working knowledge of Python and Ansible for automation.
- ITIL v3/v4 Foundation Certification
- ITSM Technologies (JIRA ServiceNow) awareness and usage
- Multi-lingual proficiency (English language is required)
Why SAS
We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy healthy people have a passion for life and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world your unique contributions will make a difference.
Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds experiences and perspectives. Here it isnt about fitting into our culture its about adding to it - and we cant wait to see what youll bring.
SAS looks not only for the right skills but also for a fit with our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that make SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills values fit relationship skills problem solvers good communicators and of course innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.