Job Description \n Contract role until 31/03/27 \n Valid SC Clearance \n Hybrid with 2 days per month in London \n Rate £540 pd Inside IR35 Role Overview \n We are seeking an experienced SAS Viya Platform Engineer/SAS Administrator to deploy, administer, support, and operate SAS Viya 4 within an Azure-hosted environment. \n The successful candidate will provide hands-on SAS platform expertise across installation, configuration, administration, security, monitoring, performance, upgrades, and production support. The role will work closely with DevOps Engineers, Cloud Architects, security teams, and analytical users to ensure the SAS Viya platform is secure, resilient, performant, and operationally supportable. \n Key Responsibilities \n \n Deploy, configure, administer, maintain, and support S AS Viya 4 environments. \n Provide day-to-day administration and operational support for the SAS Viya platform. \n Manage SAS Viya services, configuration, users, groups, permissions, identities, and access controls. \n Support SAS Viya running within Kubernetes/containerised environments, including troubleshooting application and platform issues. \n Configure and maintain authentication and authorisation, integrating SAS Viya with enterprise identity and security services where required. \n Perform platform health checks, monitoring, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. \n Support performance tuning, resilience, availability, capacity management, backup and recovery activities. \n Manage SAS Viya configuration changes, maintenance activities, patches, updates, and upgrades. \n Support integration of SAS Viya with underlying Azure services, storage, networking, security, and Kubernetes infrastructure. \n Work closely with DevOps Engineers on automated deployment processes, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, certificates, secrets, and infrastructure dependencies. \n Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, developers, architects, and technical support teams to resolve platform and application issues. \n Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, support procedures, deployment records, and knowledge articles. \n Support transition of the platform from implementation/POC into a stable, supportable production service. \n \n Essential Skills
Hiring: Senior SAS Viya Platform Engineer/SAS Administrator employer: Layer7
Join a forward-thinking public sector organisation that values innovation and collaboration, where your expertise as a Data Subject Matter Expert will directly contribute to impactful data transformation initiatives. Enjoy a supportive work culture that prioritises professional development, offering numerous opportunities for growth and advancement in your career. Located in a dynamic environment, you will benefit from a strong commitment to compliance and best practices, ensuring your work is both meaningful and rewarding.
