Backup & Recovery Architect - Switzerland

Our client, a well known multinational based in the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland, is currently seeking:

DATA CENTER AND SYSTEMS: BACKUP & RECOVERY ARCHITECT

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

- Develop strategy, co-ordinate and implement project activities.
- Deliver solutions tailored for internal customers
- Drive backup & recovery service to best-in-class level.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE FOR DATACENTRE BACKUP & RECOVERY

- Ensure Backup& Recovery Architecture is developed and maintained with the supported processes and procedures to achieve the required RTO/RPO
- Ensure the datacentres have the solutions capable of achieving Availability targets
- Manage the definition, evaluation, sizing and standardisation of all Backup & Recovery hardware and systems software in the datacenters
- Ensure alignment of Backup & Recovery strategy with the SAP Database architecture for scalability, performance and availability.
- Ensure availability of quality documentation (Standards, Design and Installation Guides, Run Books) for reference by datacentre operations personnel
- Coordinate new releases with various vendors
- Communicate and align with counterparts in other architecture teams, and operations team
- Be accountable end-to-end for the compliance of the implementation to the standards

CHANGE/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

- Coordinate changes to the design of assigned components, and their implementation in the datacentres.
- Follow established project management methodologies for driving the introduction of new technologies.

IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT

- Provide regular assistance, and knowledge transfer to the operations team, and other architects
- Support the operations team in implementing the design

TECHNOLOGY WATCH

- Recommend new solutions based on latest technologies and best practices available on the market.
- Drive the backup & recovery solution, as part of the whole datacentre design, towards continuous availability, reduced complexity and improved manageability.

KEY SKILLS:

INFRASTRUCTURE

- Tape Storage (IBM)
- TSM server
- Disk Storage subsystems (IBM, HP, HDS, EMC)
- De-duplication technologies
- SAN infrastructure (Brocade)
- Operating systems (AIX, Windows)
- Unix Shell Scripting (ksh)
- Networks
- Databases (DB2, MS-SQL)

APPLICATIONS

- SAP Basis

OTHERS

- Project management
- ITIL

LANGUAGES

- English
- French