SAS Consultant

Sr. SAS Administrator (Azure)

Toronto, ON (2 days Onsite)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Lead administration, maintenance, and support of SAS 9.4 / Visual Analytics environments hosted on Microsoft Azure.
• Support end-to-end SAS platform architecture, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and operational stability.
• Manage Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP) processes for server provisioning, automated deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and infrastructure changes.
• Lead Azure server build activities, including configuration, hardening, performance optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Plan and execute SAS platform upgrades, maintenance releases, hotfix installations, and validation activities across multiple environments.
• Administer and support Azure Application Gateway configurations, SSL certificates, DNS routing, load balancing, and secure web access to SAS applications.
• Develop automation solutions for deployment, monitoring, patching, backup, recovery, and operational support activities.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for platform, infrastructure, performance, security, and application integration issues.
• Manage SAS Metadata, authentication mechanisms, service accounts, access controls, and integration with enterprise identity management platforms.
• Administer and support Lustre parallel file systems in large-scale Linux/Azure environments leveraging Lustre storage, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, storage expansion, and operational support.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, and Application Development teams to deliver platform enhancements and operational improvements.
• Support platform standards, governance controls, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior administrators, support teams, and project resources.
• Lead disaster recovery planning, business continuity testing, and environment recovery exercises.
• Support regulatory, audit, and cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring timely remediation of vulnerabilities and compliance findings.
• Participate in production support rotations, major incident management, change implementation, and release management activities.
• Drive infrastructure automation and platform optimization strategies.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of SAS Platform Administration experience supporting enterprise SAS environments.
• 5+ years of experience supporting SAS platforms in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP) for server builds, deployments, upgrades, and patching activities.
• Extensive experience performing SAS upgrades, maintenance releases, hotfix deployments, and platform migrations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, Virtual Networks, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and Azure Monitor.
• Hands-on experience administering Lustre distributed file systems supporting SAS Grid and enterprise analytics environments, including performance tuning, capacity management, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting experience.
• Experience with SSL certificates, web application configuration, and secure network architectures.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and configuration management tools.
• Strong knowledge of high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects and drive cross-functional collaboration.