Posted 6 days ago
Sr. SAS Administrator (Azure)
@ Confiar Services
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Confiar Services is hiring a Senior SAS Platform Administrator for a long-term contract in Toronto, ON, hybrid with two days a week onsite. The role leads administration of SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Grid environments on Microsoft Azure, covering upgrades, deployment automation, Lustre storage, security and disaster recovery. The posting requires 8+ years of SAS platform administration and 5+ years on Azure.
Responsibilities:
- Lead administration of SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Grid on Azure
- Manage Azure infrastructure, Lustre storage and SAS upgrades and patching
- Develop automation for deployment, monitoring, backup and recovery
- Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents and support DR testing
- Mentor SAS administrators and collaborate across cloud and security teams
Requirements summary:
- 8+ years enterprise SAS platform administration
- 5+ years supporting SAS on Microsoft Azure
- Hands-on Lustre distributed file system experience
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD and configuration management
- Knowledge of HA, DR and backup strategies
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- 2026-11-04
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- 2026-11-10
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- 2026-11-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Job Title: Sr. SAS Administrator (Azure)
Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid, 2 Days Onsite
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior SAS Administrator / SAS Platform Administrator with strong experience managing enterprise SAS 9.4 / SAS Visual Analytics environments on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in SAS platform administration, Azure infrastructure, Linux, Lustre storage, deployment automation, upgrades, patching, security, and disaster recovery.
This role will serve as a technical lead for SAS platform operations, infrastructure optimization, automation, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead administration and support of SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics, and SAS Grid environments hosted on Azure.
- Manage SAS platform architecture, scalability, availability, performance, and operational stability.
- Perform SAS upgrades, hotfixes, maintenance releases, migrations, and environment refreshes.
- Manage Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP) processes for server provisioning, deployments, patching, and infrastructure changes.
- Lead Azure server build, configuration, hardening, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Administer Azure VMs, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VNet, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and Azure Monitor.
- Manage SSL certificates, DNS routing, secure web access, and application connectivity.
- Administer Lustre distributed file systems supporting SAS Grid and enterprise analytics workloads.
- Perform Lustre performance tuning, capacity planning, storage expansion, troubleshooting, backup, and recovery.
- Develop automation for deployment, patching, monitoring, backup, recovery, and operational support.
- Manage SAS Metadata, authentication, service accounts, roles, permissions, and enterprise identity integration.
- Troubleshoot complex SAS, Linux, Azure, networking, performance, and application integration issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of production incidents.
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and environment recovery testing.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, and Application teams.
- Support security, audit, vulnerability remediation, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Participate in production support, change management, release management, and major incident activities.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SAS administrators and support teams.
- Drive platform automation, optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of enterprise SAS Platform Administration experience.
- 5+ years supporting SAS platforms on Microsoft Azure.
- Strong hands-on experience with SAS 9.4, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Grid, and SAS Metadata.
- Strong experience with Enterprise Deployment Pipeline (EDP).
- Experience with SAS upgrades, hotfixes, patching, migrations, and environment refreshes.
- Hands-on Azure experience with VMs, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VNet, Key Vault, Storage, and Azure Monitor.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting skills.
- Hands-on experience with Lustre distributed file systems.
- Experience with SSL certificates, DNS, load balancing, and secure network configurations.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and configuration management.
- Strong knowledge of HA, DR, backup, and recovery strategies.
- Experience troubleshooting large-scale enterprise SAS environments.
- Strong communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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