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Customer is looking to bring on board an experience SAS Administrator to administer their 9.3 production and 9.4 test environments. This person will assist SAS professional services during the installation of SAS GRID on Red Hat Linux nodes at the end of September. This person needs to be an expert SAS programmer as he/she will assist in the migration of users to the GRID environment from their currently Windows Foundation environment.

Job Title

SAS Administrator / GRID & End User Support.

Contract Start / End Date

Start: ASAP

Contract Duration

~6 Months

Rate

All inclusive

Life expectancy beyond
contract duration

TBD - Likely to be extended

# of resources required

1

Primary Skill set

Background:

A large Financial Institution is in the process of installing SAS GRID onto LINUX server. The environment is currently SAS9.3 on production and SAS9.4 on test. This person will assist SAS professional services during the installation of SAS GRID on Red Hat Linux nodes at the end of September. This person needs to be an expert SAS programmer as he/she will assist in the migration of users to the GRID environment.

Details:

·            SAS 9.3 on production

·            SAS 9.4 on test

·            Installation of SAS GRID on Red Hat LINUX at the end of September.

·            6 business units currently have Foundation SAS on Windows

·            1 Business unit has about 15 users using SAS/STAT for model validation

·            All users need to be migrated to the GRID environment so their code runs distributed across the GRID

·            Access to Oracle and ODBC (MS SQL)

·            Cron scripting and familiarity with LINUX OS.

Work Location

Onsite, 100%, in Birmingham, AL

Rates

All –inclusive (expenses included) hourly rate requested for working FT, M-F, for 6 months continuous.

Will clients interview the candidates

Yes. The candidate will be interviewed by the SAS Technical team, and then by the customer.

Any Certifications required?

SAS Administration

SAS GRID

SAS BASE and Advanced programming.

Candidate Demographic

US Citizens or Green Card Holders preferred. H1B candidates would be considered if the person was a good fit.