The SAS Administrator is responsible for the administration maintenance support monitoring security and performance optimisation of SAS platforms including SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Office Analytics SAS Management Console SAS Metadata Server and SAS Viya environments

Key Responsibilities

Platform Administration

Install configure upgrade and patch SAS environments

Administer SAS Metadata Server Object Spawner Workspace Servers and Web Applications

Manage SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Office Analytics environments

Monitor platform health and availability

User Security Management

Create modify and disable user accounts

Manage roles groups permissions and metadata security

Support SailPointAD integrations and entitlement reviews

Ensure compliance with security and audit requirements

Production Support

Provide L2L3 support for SAS incidents and service requests

Troubleshoot application connectivity and performance issues

Coordinate with SAS Vendor Support for productrelated issues

Perform root cause analysis and preventive actions

Health Checks Monitoring

Conduct daily platform health checks

Monitor server utilisation CPU Memory Storage

Verify SAS services scheduled jobs and application availability

Configure s and notifications for critical failures

Change Release Patch Management

Execute platform patching upgrades and migrations

Support release deployments and change activities

Perform prepost implementation validation

Prepare rollback and recovery plans

Performance Capacity Management





Analyse platform performance bottlenecks

Tune SAS services and workloads

Optimise resource utilisation and job execution

Support capacity planning activities

Backup Disaster Recovery

Maintain backup and restoration procedures

Participate in DR drills and validation exercises

Ensure business continuity readiness

Documentation Governance

Maintain SOPs knowledge articles and support documentation

Update operational runbooks and architecture diagrams

Ensure adherence to ITIL processes for Incident Problem Change and Request Management

Required Skills

SAS Enterprise Guide Administration

SAS Management Console

SAS Metadata Server Administration

SAS Office Analytics

SAS Viya Administration preferred

UnixLinux Administration

Windows Server Administration

Shell Scripting

Active Directory Integration

ITIL Processes

ServiceNow

Preferred Skills

SAS Grid Administration

SAS Marketing Automation

KubernetesDocker for SAS Viya

AzureAWS Cloud

Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace Splunk or SolarWinds

Experience

L2 L3 Administrator

Typical Support Activities

User provisioning and deprovisioning

Metadata administration

Health checks and shift handovers

Incident and problem management

License renewals

Patching and upgrades

Vendor coordination

Capacity and performance management

DR validation and audit support

willing to work in 247 model

Skills

Mandatory Skills : SAS Administration - Base, Platform, EG, SAS-Data Integrator
Valuable to Have Skills : SASS

📌 Sas Administrator (India)
🏢 LTM
📍 India