SAS Administrator (Eden Praire, MN)

Req. ID: 23476MN Position Title: SAS Administrator. Contact Name: Bob Kishore (bob@vls-systems.com) Location: Eden Prairie MN. Duration: 9 Months Targeted Start Date: 4/3/2009. Required Skills: BASE SAS, UNIX; and AIX or Solaris; SAS Access, SAS Macros, Scripts, SAS BI. Job Description: Senior SAS Adminsitrator. Looking for someone to do performance & tuning on existing application, not development! They will be managing 22 SAS Servers and working with the business groups that run SAS Applications. Needs someone very quickly - will start interviews right away! Provides production on-call support for client server systems. Provide BASE SAS Administration support to numerous systems on UNIX and Windows platforms. Participate in production support and implementation of BASE SAS Products. Provide backup support 24x7 support of UNIX servers. Must have understanding of supporting BASE SAS on UNIX servers running Operating Systems AIX or Solaris. In-depth installation and support for a. BASE SAS Versions: 8.2, 9.1.3, 9.2 b. SAS Access (Oracle, DB2, SQLSERVER, ODBC, xOLE-DB, ORACLE , Sybase) c. SAS Macros d. Creating and maintaining Scripts e. Added Bonus i. Good knowledge of SAS BI ii. Knowledge of SAS Monitoring · Added value towards knowledge of a. Investigating and resolving SAS coding and hardware issue i. RAM, code, disk storage, b. Work well in a team c. Be able to provide constructive criticism to SAS programmers d. Create new ideas on implementing or supporting SAS environments