SAS Platform Admin

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. Enable statisticians, data scientists, and analytics engineers by delivering reliable, secure, high‑performing SAS Grid, R/Posit, and JMP desktop environments that power critical analytics across Lilly. The Tech@Lilly team is actively seeking an experienced SAS Platform Administrator. Are you passionate about enabling enterprise analytics, optimizing visualization platforms, and driving automation at scale? Do you enjoy owning mission‑critical BI infrastructure, strengthening governance, and empowering data-driven decision-making across a global organization? If so, bring YOUR expertise to Lilly—where your work accelerates scientific discovery, sharpens insights, and improves patient outcomes. What You’ll Be Doing: You will serve as the operational backbone for our statistical computing landscape, ensuring SAS 9 Grid, R/Posit, and JMP desktop environments remain secure, performant, compliant, and highly available. You will work closely with platform engineering, InfoSec, IT infrastructure, and analytics users to ensure smooth day‑to-day operations and long‑term platform health.

Requirements

• High School Diploma with 5+ years of platform/system administration experience.
• Experience with SAS Grid Platform Administration – SAS 9.4 Grid on Linux and Viya 4.0 on AWS EKS
• Experience with SAS Desktop tools (SAS EG, PC SAS) installation and maintenance.
• Knowledge of SAS Viya cloud deployments and administration.
• Knowledge of JMP tool, R administration.
• Linux Administration – Server setup & monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting
• Demonstrated experience with upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and enterprise deployments.
• Experience supporting enterprise BI operations, migrations, DR planning, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ticketing systems.
• Strong documentation skills for Security and CSQA compliance.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with regulated environments (life sciences, pharma, healthcare).
• Cloud knowledge (AWS or Azure) and hybrid infrastructure experience.
• Prior experience with Posit/RStudio products, SAS administration, or JMP at scale.
• Proficiency in Linux (RHEL), automation (Bash/Python/Ansible/Terraform), and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to diagnose performance issues across distributed analytics workloads.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Experience partnering with InfoSec, compliance, or validation teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize SAS 9 Grid, including metadata servers, compute nodes, workload management, patching, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Operate R/Posit environments (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager), ensuring reliable access, upgrades, package governance, and reproducibility.
• Manage JMP desktop deployments, including licensing, distribution, and integration with identity groups.
• Integrate platforms with enterprise IAM (AD/LDAP/SSSD), enabling secure access and enforcing RBAC.
• Automate operations using Bash, Python, and configuration management tooling (Ansible/Terraform preferred).
• Collaborate with GIS infrastructure teams to support Linux (RHEL), networking, storage, and certificate management (TLS/PKI).
• Support backup/restore, DR validation, and change‑controlled updates aligned with regulated‑industry expectations.
• Provide operational support, lead incident troubleshooting, and drive root-cause analysis with strong documentation discipline.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED