Storage & Backup Engineer at GVA Partners

Job Description
Our client is seeking to hire highly skilled Storage & Backup Engineers (13) to join the team that designs, configures, develops, integrates, tests, implements, documents, and supports the storage infrastructure ecosystem.

Requirements:

• Administration of Storage & Backup environment
• Monitor Storage & Backup service availability and performance thresholds
• Backup Administration (EMC Networker, Data domain, Avamar, DPA)
• Ensure all the Servers, Database and Data is backed up as per policy guidelines
• Knowledge of upgrading HBA firmware and Drivers on UNIX and Windows Servers
• Experience in troubleshooting HBA issues on Windows and Unix Operating systems
• Ensure backup schedules are completed successfully for all the systems
• Report and action on failed backup schedule.
• Propose and prepare restoration calendar, and do periodic restoration drills for the following but limited to Exchange, Database, Applications, OS, Fileserver, SAN etc.
• Configure backup schedule for any servers deployed in both Projects and Production.
• Optimize tape utilization by not affecting the backup functionality.
• Manage daily offsite tape movement.
• Perform periodic audit on offsite location.
• Propose and prepare effective backup standard operating work instructions and policy
• Execution of backup/recovery procedures
• Responsible for Technology refresh in respective domain

Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or any related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Expertise on EMC Power Max, VMAX, VNX, ECS HP 3par, Data domain, Replication, Data domain
• Experience in setting up backup media retentions, LUN creation, storage space management
• In depth knowledge of analysis for storage backend problems & troubleshooting Brocade Switches