Senior SAS Platform Administrator to provide operational enhancements, maintenance, installation and support of SAS, R, Python, Spark, and EMR (Hadoop)

Our valued healthcare client is seeking a Senior SAS Platform Administrator to provide operational enhancements, maintenance, installation and support of SAS, R, Python, Spark, and EMR (Hadoop)

Initial 4 month contract with a possibility of extension. 100% remote (EST)

As the successful candidate, you will provide operational enhancements, maintenance, installation and support of the different technologies used by the Data Scientist teams. Such technologies include SAS, R, Python, Spark, EMR (Hadoop) running on the Windows and Linux operating system and hosted on the AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-going support to Analytical users

• Work with other Analytical Administrators to resolve any issue on the SAS environment

• Work with the internal team to execute a training program for R, Python and Spark

• Manage permissions on the different analytical environments (Windows, Linux and SAS Metadata).

• Monitor logs, create SAS, R and Python programs and scripts for automation.

• Participate in the implementations of different technologies to support upcoming large-scale project

Must-Have

• 3+ years of experience delivering SAS 9.4 administrative and support in a Windows server environment
• Base SAS programming
• 3+ years of experience with R and Python in a Linux environment
• 3+ years of experience with EMR or Hadoop
• 3+ years of AWS knowledge and/or hand-on cloud experience
• 3+ years of PowerShell scripting

Nice to Have

• Healthcare system experience