SAS Hiring for Windows Administrator at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker – always asking, “What if?”

If so, you may be the new team member we’re looking for. Because at SAS, your curiosity matters – whether you’re developing algorithms, creating customer experiences, or answering critical questions. Curiosity is our code, and the opportunities here are endless.

What we do

We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Our curiosity fuels innovation, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, and changing the way we live.

SAS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Team is a service organization responsible for providing IT support for our full spectrum of SAS Solutions to Infrastructure & Platform Services. Additionally, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team works with other SAS IT teams to improve our service catalog offerings to our customers including helping to implement next generation technologies. As an Engineer in the SAS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team, you will use your communication and technical skills to support internal and external customers in our hosted & internal environment. You will help design, implement, and support a large heterogeneous computing environment. You will be responsible for helping to maintain Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements, and improve the performance, reliability, and standardization of our hosted & internal solutions.

Primary responsibilities for this role include:
Perform daily administration activities for all Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) servers including analyzing, installing, modifying Operating Systems, storage, applications, backups and account administration.

Assists with the planning (implementation and ongoing usage/forecasting/trending), design, setup and troubleshooting of such items as Operating Systems, systems management software, security software, backup software, productivity applications.

Utilize trouble ticket system (ServiceNow) to address and resolve customer concerns.

Interface with other SAS groups and departments to enhance the environment or resolve pending issues.

Maintaining knowledge of diverse infrastructure architecture, security policies and standards and consistently applying these practices.

Troubleshoot hardware, software, or performance problems.

Develop step-by-step documentation for system support tasks.

Technical Debt refreshes

Security updates

Instance and environment decommissions.

To work with the Compliance team for audit evidence, benchmarks, and other compliance requirements for our regulated hosting environments

To work with Azure APIs for automation/integration of standard, supported services

Work with and configure Red Hat Satellite for deployments and management

Essential

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related quantitative field

Minimum 5+ years of experience as an Information Systems Engineer in a heterogeneous, dynamic, customer-focused environment

Excellent troubleshooting skills on MS Windows Server Redhat Linux, VMware

Knowledge of operating systems, utilities, services, and editors for Windows Server & Redhat Linux

Experience with infrastructure architecture including Servers, Network, Security, Storage and Backup Services to allow for efficient implementation and non-disruptive expansion and upgrades

Experience in scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash etc) & automation tools.

Good working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure etc.)

Participation in a 24×7 on-call rotation schedule.

Preferences

Collaborative team experience with superior problem-solving skills

Ability to triage requests with multiple admin resource groups

Understanding best practices around information security and data privacy in relation to system access and availability

Experience with DevOps tools will be an added advantage

Why SAS

We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.

Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn’t about fitting into our culture, it’s about adding to it – and we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring.1

SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.