SAS Admin/Architect

About the role

We are seeking a consultant to support a variety of insider threat tasks for a SAS customer in the Federal Government Defense Agency. The consultant will work with a team of fellow SAS consultants on this project. The position is remote but requires on‑site work in the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area up to five days per week.

Requirements

• Proficiency with AWS cloud administration and Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, OpenShift, or equivalent).
• Experience troubleshooting containerized applications at scale.
• Current residence in, or willingness to relocate to, the Washington, DC area.
• Willingness to work on‑site at a single Northern Virginia location up to 5 days per week.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance (current clearance preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Use data in a fast‑paced operational environment to address urgent insider threats to national security.
• Manage SAS Environment Manager, including users, groups, roles, content permissions, and access controls.
• Perform platform lifecycle activities such as upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and certificate management.
• Monitor platform health, logs, and performance across Viya services and supporting infrastructure.
• Assist with operation and maintenance of a SAS Viya 4.0 instance (SAS Studio, Visual Analytics, Visual Investigator).
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in the insider threat domain.
• Configure and support authentication and authorization integrations.
• Troubleshoot role and permission propagation issues across Viya services.
• Ensure platform compliance with security and government standards (e.g., RBAC, least privilege, auditability).

Additional Responsibilities

• Build a trusted relationship with the customer to provide practical and theoretical guidance on business value of proposed solutions.
• Understand client business pains and translate them into solutions.
• Provide data and analytical expertise to projects.
• Participate in product and solution training to maintain detailed product knowledge of SAS core components.
• Strategize with sales team on objectives for customer meetings and provide functional solution leadership for sales opportunities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current TS/SCI clearance (required).
• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, or related field.
• Prior experience with Agile development.
• Analytics, business intelligence, and/or data management experience.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Knowledge of SAS products, peripheral technologies, and implementation best practices.
• Strong problem‑solving, organizational, and decision‑making abilities.
• Previous Federal government experience.
• Understanding of open‑source programming languages.