SAS Viya Admin / Architect

About Pegasus Knowledge Solutions

SAS Viya Admin / Architect

Washington, DC

Duration : 12 Months- onsite

Proficient in SAS Viya 4 administration, upgrades, and have a solid understanding of Kubernetes.

What you'll do:

• Use data in a fast-paced operational environment to address urgent insider threats to national security.
• The SAS Viya 4 Platform Administrator is responsible for the administration, operation, and technical integrity of SAS Viya 4 environments deployed on Kubernetes. This role requires a deep understanding of SAS Viya 4 s cloud native technical architecture, container orchestration, and platform integrations, with emphasis on availability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Administer and support SAS Viya 4 environments in containerized deployments.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain entities, pages, alerts, and workflows in SAS Visual Investigator.
• Assist with the operation and maintenance of a SAS Viya 4.0 instance that includes SAS Studio, Visual Analytics, and 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).

Other Responsibilities:

• Build a trusted relationship with the customer to provide practical and theoretical guidance in the business value of proposed solutions and set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Understand client business pains and translate them into solutions.
• Provide reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects, and technologies.
• Provide data and analytical expertise to projects.
• Participate in product and solution training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings.
• Strategize with sales team on objectives for customer meetings, understand how this activity relates to overall sales plan, and provide functional solution leadership for sales opportunities.

What we're looking for:

• SAS Viya 4 Administrative knowledge/understanding