Storage & Backup Job Description
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Storage & Backup Job Description
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced dynamic environment required
- Level 3 break-fix support for mid-range and high-end storage products
- Basic solution design as per customer requirement
- Advanced system configuration and migrations
- Infrastructure upgrades, patch management
- Mentoring L1/L2 engineers through training
- Provide technical inputs in pre-sale cycles of technology refresh
- Conduct PoC, Demos and pilot projects
- Regular auditing of the infrastructure and standardization as per industry best practices
- Liaise with other functions (Systems, Network) for performance and service delivery
- Knowledge of TSM environments is a bonus
- Experience with SAN and NAS is a bonus
- Serve as Senior Storage and Backup Administrator for the USCIS SPEDI TO
- Coordinate with key stakeholders individuals and groups
- Experience managing large scale dynamic enterprise environment
- Experience with storage infrastructure management and performance tools
Storage & Backup Job Description
- Provide peers, customers and leadership with a strong focus on operational excellence
- Works in conjunction with entire Platform Support team to maintain system uptime on all enterprise wide platform devices to a world-class level
- Builds rapport with location IT and discusses future plans, identifying technology opportunities that might otherwise be overlooked managers
- Conforms to all Change Management processes and procedures by developing implementation plans, verification testing, training, back-out strategy, and contingency plans
- Resolves issues using established problem resolution techniques
- Monitors production systems in order to identify or recognize production problems both proactively and reactively
- Lead and grow a team of engineers, QA and Business Analysts
- Own and create elegant system-wide solutions within an agile development environment
- Coordinate with and grow offshore teams
- You will be responsible for performing all procurement and contracting activities including pre-qualification of suppliers, tender management, negotiation and closure of contracts to obtain optimal total cost of ownership (cost, service, quality)
- Experience with enterprise backup tools (NetBackup, DataProtector, TSM)
- Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) – Primary skill
- BackupExec – Secondary Skill
- Aix/Linux/Unix
- Virtual Tape Library
- Tape Libraries - 3494, LTO, DLT
Storage & Backup Job Description
- You will perform due diligence at new potential suppliers and pre-qualify them before initiating a business relationship
- You will have responsibility to cover two levels Local Buyers who are defined as Procurement Experts & their local team leaders who are defined as Regional Procurement Experts
- You will work with relevant stakeholders and create alignment in buying products & services
- Develop and Implement the technical standards for Storage and backup and recovery
- Gather, analyze and drive project requirements, design and implement storage and backup infrastructure components
- Publish Build-To and review the As-Built documentation for current and new storage and backup related design deployments
- Have a team that supports the Storage and Backup Environments from a 3rd Level 7*24*365
- Storage Management Consulting
- Service & Project Management
- Provider Steering
- Spectrum Protect (TSM) DRM
- NDMP backup protocol for NAS
- Unix Kornshell
- TSM Client responsibility also includes backup restarts and file restores
- Must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
- Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Storage & Backup Job Description
- Understanding of Data Protection and Backup as a Service
- Understanding of Archive as a Service
- Monitor self-service customer backups (using automated reports & tools)
- Manage capacity and performance of the backup infrastructure ensuring the integrity of the infrastructure on a day to day basis
- Monitor backup server environment, acknowledge incidents/problems, and resolving according to organization processes and procedures
- Troubleshoot performance issues related to the backup and recovery environment and recommend solutions
- Resolve escalated and complex incident/problem reports, and provides root cause analysis for incident reports, providing descriptive and timely updates for all assigned incidents/problems to appropriate management staff
- Liaison to vendors on vendor related incidents/problems
- Assist in mission critical restores
- Participation in a 7x24 rotating pager
- Working knowledge of host side technologies including CNA, HBA, logical volume managers, clustering and distributed file systems
- Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime Canada Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
- Perform off-hours maintenance at any time
- Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Report
- Daily on-site presence is required in Saint John or Florenceville (potential alternate site)
- Candidates showing excellent potential will also be considered
Storage & Backup Job Description
- Responsible for gathering requirements, installation, configuration, build and testing of backup and recovery software in a high availability environment
- In-depth experience in managing critical database and file restores
- Monitoring of scheduled backup jobs across multiple computing platforms
- Maintain backup policies and procedures, including the overseeing of the appropriate retention criteria and corresponding legal holds as required
- Ensure the change management practices related to the backup environment are designed in alignment within the ITIL framework and industry best practices
- Provide technical leadership to others, demonstrates excellent technical aptitude, able to provide technical direction to team members and other departments
- Work on projects, completing required tasks, and meeting deadlines as assigned
- Recommendations for tool and infrastructure technology upgrades, support, remediation, training, maintenance, end of life
- Storage Devices Management and Availability (VMAX850F, VMAX400K, VNX, XP24K, 3PAR, Data Domain, MSL8096 and ESL/MSL Tape Libraries)
- Provisioning/Allocation of Disk Space
- Provide input on TSM design, planning and implementation
- Capacity and Performance understanding of bandwitdth/throughput requirements and limits for apps/DBs in MB/s and I/O, by project, app, host or DB
- ManageNow, eESM, InfoMan (All problem mgmt tools)
- MS Doc
- Windows OS Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
- Very good potential candidates will also be considered