SAS Platform Admin

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: February 13, 2026

Job Description:

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. How You’ll Succeed: You will administer and optimize SAS 9 Grid , including metadata servers, compute nodes, workload management, patching, upgrades, and performance tuning. You will operate R/Posit environments (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager), ensuring reliable access, upgrades, package governance, and reproducibility. You will manage JMP desktop deployments , including licensing, distribution, and integration with identity groups. You will integrate platforms with enterprise IAM (AD/LDAP/SSSD), enabling secure access and enforcing RBAC. You will automate operations using Bash, Python, and configuration management tooling (Ansible/Terraform preferred). You will collaborate with GIS infrastructure teams to support Linux (RHEL), networking, storage, and certificate management (TLS/PKI). You will support backup/restore, DR validation, and change?controlled updates aligned with regulated?industry expectations. You will provide operational support, lead incident troubleshooting, and drive root?cause analysis with strong documentation discipline. What You Should Bring: 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. 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. Basic 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. Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1. Additional Information: Onsite role located in Indianapolis, Indiana (relocation required). Work Schedule: 11:30am – 8:30pm EST (Nov-Mar) 12:30pm – 9:30 pm EDT (Mar-Nov) Less than 5% travel Organization Overview Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $184,800 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).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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