SAS Grid Administrator
Location: Audubon, PA
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The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering company with over 20 years of experience delivering innovative solutions across cloud, data, AI, engineering, and emerging technologies. We partner with leading enterprises to build impactful technology solutions and are looking for talented professionals to join our growing team.
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced SAS Grid Administrator to support and maintain a highly available (HA) dual-site SAS 9.4 GRID environment. This role is responsible for administering SAS infrastructure, supporting production environments, troubleshooting job failures, managing users and servers, and ensuring reliable batch and ad hoc processing. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in SAS administration, Oracle databases, Linux scripting, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support a highly available SAS 9.4 GRID environment.
- Monitor and support SAS, Oracle, and SQL Server batch and ad hoc processing.
- Troubleshoot production issues, including job failures, connectivity, permissions, and scheduling.
- Support SAS, Oracle, and SQL Server development activities.
- Manage SAS Management Console, Metadata Server, and Metadata Repository.
- Configure and maintain job scheduling, workload balancing, and system performance.
- Follow SDLC standards and change management processes.
- Create and maintain technical documentation.
Required Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience administering SAS GRID environments.
- Expertise with SAS Management Console, Metadata Server, and Metadata Repository.
- Experience with job scheduling and load balancing.
- Strong knowledge of Base SAS, SAS Macros, and SAS/ACCESS to Oracle.
- Strong Oracle database knowledge with SQL programming expertise.
- Experience with Linux shell scripting and Crontab scheduling.
- Experience working within formal SDLC and change management processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience developing and debugging complex SAS ETL processes against Oracle.
- Experience automating complex business processes.
- Experience supporting multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Knowledge of SAS and Oracle performance tuning.
- Experience installing and administering SAS servers.
- Familiarity with Altair SLC Hub.
- Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.