Environment and Configuration Manager

Project Overview:

The Modernising, Mandating Tax Advisor Registration (MMTAR) initiative-formerly known as Improving Agent Registration (IAR)-aims to enhance the client's operational and technological processes for registering agents who act on behalf of clients.
Currently, agents must register separately for each digital service. This project seeks to streamline that experience by delivering a single, automated registration journey that enables agents to sign up across all tax regimes. This unified process will also incorporate risk assessment.

The initial phase, targeted for delivery in April 2026, will cover:
Computerised Environment for Self-Assessment (CESA) Company Tax (CoTAX) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) for employer taxes.
This role will form part of the release management team within Minerva Platform to increase the existing capacity to support the additional project work.

Environment & Config Engineer

Purpose:
The SAS Platform Environment and Configuration Engineer is responsible for the setup, configuration, and ongoing support of SAS environments across development, test, and production landscapes. This includes managing deployments, ensuring platform stability, and supporting integration with technologies such as Oracle and Microsoft 365. The role is critical to enabling secure, scalable, and performant analytics platforms, particularly in the context of SAS Viya migrations and multi-tenant deployments.

Key Responsibilities:
Design, configure, and maintain SAS environments including SAS 9.4, SAS Viya 3.5, and SAS Viya 4.
Support the migration of Legacy SAS platforms to cloud-native SAS Viya 4 environments, including namespace separation and Kubernetes orchestration.
Implement and manage configuration objects, service data, and translation objects within SAS environments.
Collaborate with data engineers and DevOps teams to integrate SAS with Oracle, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and other enterprise platforms.
Monitor and optimise platform performance, ensuring high availability and compliance with security standards.
Provide technical support and troubleshooting for SAS users and developers.
Automate environment provisioning and data transfers using approved EA integration patterns.
Participate in community knowledge sharing and contribute to best practice documentation.

Essential Skills and Experience:
SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) - workflow orchestration and user support.
SAS Data Integration Studio (DI) - job development and deployment.
SAS Studio - job development and deployment.
SAS Viya 3.5/Viya 4 - platform configuration, migration, and containerisation (Kubernetes).
SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and SAS Visual Investigator (VI) - dashboard and investigation tool support.
Oracle - integration and data pipeline support.
Configuration Management - experience managing service objects, deployment artefacts, and environment baselines.
Testing Lifecycle Knowledge - including test strategy design, environment comparison utilities, and automated testing integration.

Desirable Attributes:
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated deployment pipelines.
Knowledge of scheduling tools - Airflow
Strong documentation and communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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