Senior SAS Viya Platform Engineer/SAS Administrator

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAS Viya Platform Engineer/SAS Administrator to deploy, administer, support, and operate SAS Viya 4 within an Azure-hosted environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, administer, maintain, and support SAS Viya 4 environments.
• Provide day-to-day administration and operational support for the SAS Viya platform.
• Manage SAS Viya services, configuration, users, groups, permissions, identities, and access controls.
• Support SAS Viya running within Kubernetes/containerised environments, including troubleshooting application and platform issues.
• Configure and maintain authentication and authorisation, integrating SAS Viya with enterprise identity and security services where required.
• Perform platform health checks, monitoring, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Support performance tuning, resilience, availability, capacity management, backup and recovery activities.
• Manage SAS Viya configuration changes, maintenance activities, patches, updates, and upgrades.
• Support integration of SAS Viya with underlying Azure services, storage, networking, security, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work closely with DevOps Engineers on automated deployment processes, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, certificates, secrets, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, developers, architects, and technical support teams to resolve platform and application issues.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, support procedures, deployment records, and knowledge articles.
• Support transition of the platform from implementation/POC into a stable, supportable production service.

Essential Skills & Experience

Mandatory requirement: Demonstrable, recent hands-on experience deploying, administering and supporting SAS Viya 4.

Additional essential experience

• Strong knowledge of SAS Viya 4 architecture, components, services, administration, configuration, and operational management.
• Strong SAS platform administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Practical understanding of Kubernetes and containerised application deployments.
• Experience working with Linux, including administration, troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, and log analysis.
• Good experience with Microsoft Azure, particularly cloud services, networking, security, storage, and platform operations.
• Experience configuring authentication, authorisation, RBAC, users, groups, permissions, certificates, and secrets.
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise security controls around the SAS platform.
• Experience with platform monitoring, logging, performance tuning, resilience, backup/recovery, and production operations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills covering SAS Viya applications, Kubernetes, operating systems, connectivity, authentication, and platform configuration.
• Ability to work effectively with DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, security teams, application teams, and analytical/data science users.

Desirable Skills

• Experience running SAS Viya 4 on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment approaches.
• Experience with Kubernetes configuration/deployment technologies such as Kustomize or Helm.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault or similar enterprise secrets-management solutions.
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts including VNets, subnets, DNS, Private Endpoints, ingress, load balancing, and TLS certificates.
• Experience supporting platforms in secure, regulated, or UK government environments.