Backup DR

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As a Backup DR you will be responsible for supporting existing storage, backup and disaster recovery (DR) systems and technologies, and implementing strategic solutions to stated business challenges. You will most likely be working in a cloud environment.

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Implementing hardware/software solutions to enhance or extend the enterprise SAN, storage, and backup infrastructures
- Developing and producing capacity and performance management reports and devising solutions or recommendations to maximize efficiencies in all areas
- Implementing release schedules to ensure that all hardware and software are on current versions and patch levels
- Capacity management, coordination and implementation of new systems, upgrades, and scheduled maintenance of storage technologies
- Maintaining and testing disaster recovery for critical business applications/systems
- Overseeing the purchase of hardware, software, and technical services, and maintaining storage and backup infrastructure inventories
- Providing  operational and technical support for the entire storage environment
- Provisioning, managing, maintaining, and de-provisioning of storage volumes/LUNs to support server deployment activities
- Administering, installing, supporting, and monitoring on-line and backup archive storage systems
- Setting up and maintaining client backups and restoring data from backups.

ESSENTIAL QUALITIES

- 2-5 years experience in Information Technology in distributed data center environment
- Linux system administration experience
- Extensive backup troubleshooting experience
- Performance monitoring
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Virtual backup management
- Tape libraries management
- Netvault backup

DESIRABLE QUALITIES

- VMware, working with vCenter platform
- Nagios monitoring
- Java/Groovy development
- Degree level or equivalent
- Oracle administration concepts
- NAS
- SAN
- Dell Compellent