SAS Administrator

It's an ideal proposition for those, who seek new possibilities for developing their abilities in very attractive work conditions. Malta is a very desirable living place and rest (the sun is shining 300 days in an year :-) )., and the cost of living are very similiar to Poland. The mediterrenean climate makes Malta a very attractive place for employers with challenge-opened minds.
Year salary depends on the candidates exeperience

• Providing design/direction/support of SAS related software, by performing planning/building/operations.
• Performing SAS related software and hardware administration duties and providing technical leadership.
• Oversee all aspects of SAS environment including installation, patching, backup, access control, day-to-day monitoring.
• Manage daily issues, request tickets, drive run environment improvements and make appropriate recommendations working with management, vendor team, external application / infrastructure vendors and end-users.
• Providing support to customers by troubleshooting problems with SAS related software applications / environment and providing technical solutions.
• Orders, license control & tracking, installation, etc., of additional software as needed.
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, quantify cost, outline potential value, benefits and constraints.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for SAS related software performance, outage and process issues and drive team to implement solutions, preventative actions, controls, and monitoring.
• Leading continuous improvement projects and delivering quality software solutions in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Researching alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.
• Ensure compliance to quality system methodology and development of quality metrics for SAS.
• Learn other clinical IT applications and provide technical support

• 1 – 5 years of SAS administration (preferred) or SAS programming experience or equivalent
• Strong system administration skills, understanding of application security, performance and tuning.
• Knowledge of change management procedures and version control.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in systems support, user support, customer support or training of enterprise class software.
• Ability to effectively communicate designs and decisions to peers, customers and management.
• Experience implementing and using SAS Enterprise software, create standards, and manage code promotion to production environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Bachelor degree in a quantitative field, preferably Computer Science, Information Technology or related field will be a strong asset.
• English in communicative level (both oral and written)