Job Title: Sr. SAS Administrator (Azure)
Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid, 2 Days Onsite
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior SAS Administrator / SAS Platform Administrator with strong experience managing enterprise SAS 9.4 / SAS Visual Analytics environments on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in SAS platform administration, Azure infrastructure, Linux, Lustre storage, deployment automation, upgrades, patching, security, and disaster recovery.
This role will serve as a technical lead for SAS platform operations, infrastructure optimization, automation, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead administration and support of SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics, and SAS Grid environments hosted on Azure.
- Manage SAS platform architecture, scalability, availability, performance, and operational stability.
- Perform SAS upgrades, hotfixes, maintenance releases, migrations, and environment refreshes.
- Manage Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP) processes for server provisioning, deployments, patching, and infrastructure changes.
- Lead Azure server build, configuration, hardening, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Administer Azure VMs, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VNet, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and Azure Monitor.
- Manage SSL certificates, DNS routing, secure web access, and application connectivity.
- Administer Lustre distributed file systems supporting SAS Grid and enterprise analytics workloads.
- Perform Lustre performance tuning, capacity planning, storage expansion, troubleshooting, backup, and recovery.
- Develop automation for deployment, patching, monitoring, backup, recovery, and operational support.
- Manage SAS Metadata, authentication, service accounts, roles, permissions, and enterprise identity integration.
- Troubleshoot complex SAS, Linux, Azure, networking, performance, and application integration issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of production incidents.
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and environment recovery testing.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, and Application teams.
- Support security, audit, vulnerability remediation, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Participate in production support, change management, release management, and major incident activities.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SAS administrators and support teams.
- Drive platform automation, optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of enterprise SAS Platform Administration experience.
- 5+ years supporting SAS platforms on Microsoft Azure.
- Strong hands-on experience with SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Grid, and SAS Metadata.
- Strong experience with Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP).
- Experience with SAS upgrades, hotfixes, patching, migrations, and environment refreshes.
- Hands-on Azure experience with VMs, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VNet, Key Vault, Storage, and Azure Monitor.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting skills.
- Hands-on experience with Lustre distributed file systems.
- Experience with SSL certificates, DNS, load balancing, and secure network configurations.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and configuration management.
- Strong knowledge of HA, DR, backup, and recovery strategies.
- Experience troubleshooting large-scale enterprise SAS environments.
- Strong communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
