Backup Engineer

Our client is one of the world's leading professional services companies, listed on NASDAQ. Headquartered in the U.S., is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

Job Description

Duties

• Plan, design, test, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot a variety of enterprise backup systems.
• Proactive capacity planning for backup environments across the company.
• Manage backup related activities such as monitoring, troubleshooting performance issues, data recovery, exception management, etc. across both data center and remote office environments.
• Monitor the performance of all backup systems and respond to issues and incidents by troubleshooting to resolve the problem.
• Recommend, schedule and perform backup environment improvements, upgrades, patches, and fixes.
• Produce and maintain written documentation of the backup environment.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery plans.
• Assist in research on relevant technology products, services, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the backup industry.
• Ability to collaborate with internal customers to evaluate new requirements and recommend improvements related to backup performance, backup windows, resource utilization, and cost
• Engaging with OEM vendors in incident remediation and technical solution development.

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years’ experience in managing enterprise Backup and Recovery environments.
• High level of experience engineering and administering large enterprise scale Backup solutions, including RMAN, SQL, backup-to-disk, and EMC/NetApp storage based solutions.
• Specific experience managing EMC Suite and CommVault Enterprise Backup solutions, including management/reporting tools such as Data Protection Advisor (DPA).
• Experience with disk-based backup solutions, such as Data Domain and comparable solutions.
• Experience with backup and data replication solutions.
• Experience implementing and supporting backup solutions for highly virtualized server environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows and Redhat Linux operating systems.
• Experience managing backup technology integration with database, application and other components.
• Experience working with external support providers and strategic partners to design, implement and support backup and recovery solutions.
• Must understand Disaster Recovery methodologies and solutions related to backup and recovery.
• Must have experience in building business cases for technology related initiatives, and the ability to make presentations to leadership.
• Must have good written and oral communication skills.
• Must have strong problem solving skills.
• Understand Oracle and MS SQL database backup and recovery concepts and solutions.
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Must be able to work additional hours including occasional weekends and evenings
• Requires the ability to provide support 24 X 7

Additional Information

Please send your update CV and expected package for further discussion