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Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- Remote

  • Full Time, remote
  • SAS Institute Inc
  • Remote On Site Hybrid, United States of America
Salary undisclosed

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Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- Remote or Hybrid

At SAS, where you start doesn't have to be where you end; and there is ample opportunity for internal career mobility. Whether you're looking to grow a new skill or experience a new role, there's no time like the present to take the next step. We're here to support you in your journey.

About the job
The Technology, Infrastructure, and Architecture team is looking for a Sr. Associate Systems Engineer responsible for managing, maintaining, prioritizing, and supporting the compute and technology used by R&D. You'll have an opportunity to continue to grow your skills as we are always adapting to the needs of our organization as technology changes. Our team is responsible for providing SAS R&D with the needed resources to produce the best software for customers!

As a Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- you will:
  • Support various aspects of R&D infrastructure operations, including standardizing technology approaches, implementing patch management solutions, normalizing logging and authentication, and implementing operating system upgrades and version management methodologies
  • Drive down technical debt by migrating applications to new systems
  • Enforce technical standards to ensure technical solutions are executed according to a prescribed design and architecture.
  • Work on a team of high-performing experts to provide the R&D population with needed resources to provide our SAS customer base with the best software in the industry!
  • Plan for and remediate any security findings related to R&D networks and computing resources following industry best practices.
  • Actively collaborate with other technical R&D and CIS teams to ensure that all production-level R&D solutions remain highly performant and redundant to meet availability requirements for end users and service consumers.
  • Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.

Role Competencies:
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to use technical and other resources to meet goals and objectives of the organization.
  • Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and disciplines.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Applies knowledge of technology to improve work processes and results.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience with Linux systems administration
  • Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
  • Understanding of infrastructure and cloud concepts
  • Willingness to learn new technologies
  • Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ansible, etc)
  • Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and determine root cause
  • You're curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications
  • Familiarity with IAC, CI/CD concepts
  • Experience automating tasks
  • Experience using source control solutions like GitHub or GitLab.
  • Ability to triage requests with multiple admin resource groups

Resources for career development
  • Learn more about Internal Career Mobility on InsideSAS
  • Check out the Career Development SharePoint site and join the Career Development community on Yammer
  • Learn about career programs, including Career Circles, Career Mentoring and the Learning & Development Exchange
  • Explore hundreds of resources in our Career Development Resource Library, organized by topic.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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