Storage & Backup Engineer - Team Lead at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Job Objective

• This role revolves around planning the Storage, Backup, and Security strategy, including ownership for all data classification. Implementation of Storage based solutions including Storage Consolidation, SAN, Backup and Disaster Recovery.
• Identifying errors and inconsistencies, troubleshooting, and performing regular maintenance checks to ensure the efficiency and security of storage systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Strong depth knowledge of analysis for storage backend problems & troubleshooting Brocade Switches.
• Knowledge of upgrading HBA firmware and Drivers on UNIX and Windows Servers
• 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Information Technology or other related course.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 - 7 years work experience.
• Previous experience of designing storage and backup strategies at an enterprise level
• Awareness of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) very beneficial.
• Any Microsoft/Linux qualifications very beneficial
• EMC Training / Certification mandatory.
• Highly motivated with a desire to improve skills, processes and procedures.
• Expertise on EMC Power Max, VMAX, VNX, ECS HP 3par, Data domain, Replication, Data domain.
• Experience in troubleshooting HBA issues on Windows and Unix Operating systems
• Experience in setting up backup media retentions, LUN creation, Storage space management
• Experience: 5 years hands on experience in storage and Backup.

Salary
Very Attractive.