Address- Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
- Type: Contract
- Job #16746
Our Government client is seeking an experienced SAS Administrator / Technical Engineer Expert who will exercise a considerable degree of independence with work being performed under the general guidance of the team leader and the Director.
The SAS Administrator will have proven experience in managing, maintaining or supporting Statistical Analysis System (SAS) platform in a large-scale organisation.
The SAS Administrator will excel in high tempo work environments and will be able to balance several key priorities simultaneously while ensuring the highest levels of quality in the work being delivered by the team.
Key responsibilities- Partner with key stakeholders and understand requirements.
- Understand use cases, write functional specifications, and design documentation.
- Analyse business requirements and design the solution framework.
- Ad-hoc support of various SAS installations.
- Assist end users / customer-facing people in investigating and resolving everyday issues.
- Maintain and enhance the source code and processing in the current SAS environment.
- Effectively communicate with team members throughout a project’s lifecycle.
- Timely patching of SAS and its components.
- Performance upkeep of SAS systems.
- Ensure all work is carried out and documented in accordance with agency standards, methods, and procedures to ensure information retention and re-use.
- Identify and discover automation possibilities for ease of administrative effort and reduction of repetitive work.
- Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors to ensure smooth operations and support. Primary Technologies required for role include:
- SAS, Unix/Linux. Secondary Technologies:
- Java, Python, SQL
Primary Technologies required for role include:
- SAS, Unix/Linux.
Secondary Technologies:
- Java, Python, SQL
- Five years or more experience in supporting SAS landscape.
- Operating System hands on experience on Unix/Linux and shell scripting (ability to develop code rather than just maintain existing).
- Analysis, troubleshooting and problem-solving experience.
- SAS Installation experience in large scale environment.
- Application support and maintenance.
- Skilled in at-least one programming language (preferably Python).
- Hands-on experience on Linux Platform as a Linux administrator or SAS application with Linux as underlying operating system.
For a confidential chat, please contact Emily on 0437 453 *** or via email at *****@exclaim-it.com.au and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.
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