Hi, I Need SAS Platform administrator * Only US Citizens*
Please send the resumes to [email protected] or [email protected] Title: *SAS“Platform Administrator with EBI / Forecast Server Exposure” * Duration: 6+ months or contract to hire Customer is seeking a SAS Platform Administrator (primarily) with (secondarily) exposure to EBI usage and development and Forecast Server usage. Customer recently migrated from a PC SAS environment to a client-server SAS 9.2 environment with EBI and Forecast Server. Customer requires a Consultant to assist them with and/or lead SAS Platform Administration tasks. Secondarily, the Customer wants a Consultant to help them to continue pushing users to adopt usage of the EBI and Forecast Server environments. As such, the Consultant will have a deep understanding of SAS Platform Administration tasks coupled with general exposure to the entire EBI product suite (including SAS coding) in order to continue to help BASE SAS users migrate over to the web environment. Customer can accept this being somewhat of a learning environment for the Consultant in that, if the Consultant has most of the skillsets described herein (but not all), the Consultant will be afforded the opportunity to learn somewhat on the job. The Services activities may include focus on the following areas: PRIMARY SKILL: SAS Platform Administration (V 9.2 required—must have in-depth experience with SAS Platform Administration within an EBI environment – V 9.3 a plus, since an upgrade will occur this year) to include: A. Experience with SAS Management Console a. Creating libraries (SAS and RDBMS) and importing data b. Creating security schemes and controlling user access c. Creating users, groups, roles d. Defining servers e. Administering web applications f. Defining, troubleshooting and monitoring SAS servers B. Experience with multi-tier SAS environment C. Managing metadata repositories D. Performing and scheduling backups of the Metadata Server and physical files E. Understanding SAS installation directory structures, where to find things related to servers, configurations, content, etc. F. Troubleshooting SAS-related performance issues, such as monitoring and logging SAS servers and spawners, and then optimizing memory usage or tuning servers for performance improvement G. Understanding the concepts of SAS repositories, what they are, why they are used, and how to create / maintain them H. Understanding how SAS interacts with 3rd-party software such as databases, web application servers, etc. I. Monitoring for availability and then installing updates to SAS software (patches / maintenance releases / hot fixes, etc.) J. SAS Folders and permissions K. Creating and utilizing ACTs L. Creating portal pages, adding portlets and security portal content M. Creating and maintaining custom themes N. Understanding the inter-relation between LINUX OS and SAS Metadata permissions and security O. Configuring SAS to authenticate to LDAP using PAM P. JBOSS as a Midtier web application server Q. SAS within a RedHat LINUX environment. Secondary SKILL: EBI Developer (V 9.2 – V 9.3 a plus, since an upgrade will occur this year). Exposure to some of the following: 1. Leading or assisting with activities related to EBI usage definition,development, and/or implementation, including actions that may incorporate both reporting and distribution processes 2. Understanding Customer’s BI requests and translating them into actionable reports from acquiring relevant data, modifying data if needed, building the reports, outputting the reports, etc. 3. Utilizing Enterprise Guide and its functionality to create project flows which could include aspects of data access, manipulation, summarization, and report generation to a variety of output formats and channels, etc. 4. Using Information Map Studio and its functionality to map physical data to business elements. 5. Using Web Report Studio and its functionality to create web reports 6. Using the Information Delivery Portal as a means for users to view reports 7. Creating various OLAP cubes using functionality of OLAP Cube Studio 8. Creating and registering Stored Processes from within Enterprise Guide 9. Publishing Enterprise Guide reports directly to Web Report Studio 10. Using the SAS Publication Framework to publish static content to SAS publication channels to be consumed within the Portal 11. Creating and modifying SAS BI Dashboards using available functionality 12. Utilizing the Add-in for Microsoft Office 13. Understanding the interrelation of EBI components and when to use one over the other, and be able to provide guidance, mentoring and knowledge transfer within the Customeruser community in the proper use of these SAS components 14. Be proficient in Base SAS programming, SQL programming, as well as the SAS Macro language for use in making code more efficient 15. Leveraging and utilizing SAS’ Output Delivery System (ODS) 16. Leveraging and utilizing SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle (predominantly) (Other Secondary Skills) Knowledge of Forecast Server (FS) a. Help users adopt it. b. Nice to know how to use FS and have knowledge of it, but not be a forecasting expert or know how to build forecasts. Knowledge of JMP Soft skills to include: i. Ability to train or mentor users (in classroom or other settings) ii. Interfacing and strategizing well with Senior Management in developing long-term use plans of SAS, leveraging any inherent Project Management skills iii. Exhibiting effective written and verbal communication skills. iv. Basic PM skills -- Thanks and Regards, Kapa Global Resource Management, Inc. (GRMI) Direct: 678-935-036 3770 729 9222 (Fax) [email protected] and Please do keep a CC to [email protected] aswell. www.grmi.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Business_Intelligence" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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