Functieomschrijving
- Help design, build and continuously improve the clients online platform.
- Research, suggest and implement new technology solutions following best practices/standards.
- Take responsibility for the resiliency and availability of different products.
- Be a productive member of the team.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of overall IT experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on SAS Administration experience.
- Experienced Senior SAS Administrator to manage, support, and optimize the enterprise SAS platform within a mission-critical production environment.
- Strong expertise in SAS platform administration, deployment and migration, production support, performance tuning, and security integration.
- Ensure platform stability, availability, security, compliance, and continuous improvement while supporting business-critical analytics workloads.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, security, database, and application teams to maintain a reliable, secure, and highly available SAS ecosystem.
- Administer and support SAS 9.4 environments, including Metadata Server, Object Spawner, Workspace Server, Stored Process Server, and Web Infrastructure Platform.
- Perform SAS platform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and routine maintenance.
- Manage SAS user access, metadata security, roles, and permissions, integrating with LDAP and Active Directory where required.
- Monitor platform health and ensure availability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
- Identify opportunities for performance optimization and continuous platform improvement.
- Plan and execute SAS platform deployments, upgrades, and migrations across environments.
- Support environment refreshes, platform modernization, and infrastructure migration initiatives.
- Coordinate deployment and migration activities with infrastructure, database, security, and application teams.
- Validate platform functionality, integrations, and performance following migrations or upgrades.
- Ensure deployment activities comply with established operational procedures and change management requirements.
- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 (L2/L3) support for enterprise SAS production environments.
- Troubleshoot platform-related incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Monitor platform performance, identify potential issues, and proactively resolve operational problems.
- Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes in accordance with ITIL practices.
- Support production maintenance windows, on-call activities, and critical incident resolution.
- Manage support tickets, track issues, and coordinate resolution through tools such as Jira.
- Monitor and optimize SAS platform performance to support business-critical analytics workloads.
- Perform SAS Grid monitoring and troubleshoot resource utilization, job execution, and performance-related issues.
- Support authentication and authorization integrations using LDAP and Active Directory.
- Use Bash shell scripting to automate administrative tasks, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise security policies, access controls, and compliance requirements.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, deployment guides, and troubleshooting runbooks.
- Collaborate with global infrastructure, security, database, and application teams to resolve technical issues.
- Communicate incident updates, technical findings, and service improvement recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on platform stability, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Strong practical experience administering and supporting enterprise-scale SAS 9.4 platforms.
- Proven experience with SAS platform deployment, migration, upgrades, patching, and maintenance.
- Experience supporting business-critical production environments and resolving complex technical issues.
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration, shell scripting, SAS Grid monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Experience with LDAP, Active Directory, and enterprise security integration.
- Good understanding of ITIL-based service management processes, including incident, change, and problem management.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with global teams and stakeholders in a production support environment.
- Mandatory Skills: SAS Platform Administration, SAS 9.4 Administration, SAS Deployment and Migration, SAS Grid Monitoring, Performance Tuning, LDAP and Active Directory Integration, Bash Shell Scripting, Production Support (L2/L3), ITIL Processes, Jira, Linux Administration, Incident, Change, and Problem Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
BenefitsFixed Term Employment Contract
Work-Life Balance
Flexible Work Mode
What GeekSoft Consulting Offers
- International, collaborative consulting culture with clear career development paths.
- Comprehensive Dutch benefits package emphasizing well-being, mobility, and career growth.