Storage and Backup Engineer

Company: Cynet Systems
Location: Waukegan
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

Pay range: $60 - $64

Job Description:



Responsibilities:

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• Administer, maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, and support large complex backup technologies with Commvault as the primary technology with Spectrum Protect, Netbackup as Nice to haves.
  
• Nice to have Support for multi-platform Storage environment that includes large fiber channel SAN with multiple directors, servers, storage frame technologies, as well as enterprise backup technologies with an emphasis on EMC.
  
• Perform root cause analysis for major issues and also provide workarounds to ensure business continuity.
  
• Identify, analyze and resolve problems specifically in the Backup and Storage environments in general.
  
• Change Management: Prepare Implementation plan, rollback plan and test plan, risk and impact analysis for critical or complex changes.
  
• Review the change plan and documentation prepared by level 2 engineers or peers.
  
• Participate in CAB meetings as needed and assist change management in
  
• Assist in the creation of processes and procedures required for service delivery.
  
• Perform routine, planned, and emergency maintenance (change planning and implementation) of storage data center equipment.
  
• Identify single-point-of-failure and plan to mitigate the same.
  
• Fulfil critical/complex service requests.
  
• Availability and capacity planning and management: keep a track of uptime and capacity utilization of Commvault backup and storage systems and publish reports to management.
  
• Execute additional tasks given to meet internal IT project milestones and willingness to put in additional hours whenever required.
  
• Ensure all services are delivered as per agreed SLAs/KPIs, quality and scope.
  
• Update / close tickets, and update documents (such as handover documents, root cause analysis, analysis and recommendations to reports, and post-incident reviews) in a timely manner with high quality.
  
• Communicate with and log calls with vendors or 3rd parties where necessary in order to resolve issues related to storage technologies.
  
• Train, and oversee tasks executed by junior members and stand in for them if needed.
  
• Suggest, influence and implement improvements in the environment (such as issue optimization, automation, streamlining process, etc.), thereby contribute to improvement of overall operations delivery and client satisfaction.
  
• Commit to finding and fixing issues proactively and ensure all commcells are reviewed each day and major issues are highlighted, helpdesk/vendor tickets opened and actions are taken to resolve.
  
• Present reports in weekly governance/monthly governance reviews.
  
  Qualification requirements:
  
  
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  • 8 10 years work experience relevant to enterprise-level backup platforms in particular CommVault, EMC Storage, Data Domain, and Hyperscale.
    
  • Should be a subject matter expert in Commvault, Hyperscale, Data Domain.
    
  • Broad and in-depth knowledge of backup technologies planning, implementation, and maintenance.
    
  • Perform data gathering for audits and ensure processes are being followed appropriately.
    
  • Basic understanding of HIPAA, SOX, SOC, and other audit methodologies.
    
  • Comfortable working with all levels of management and preparing/delivering presentations over teams/zoom etc...
    
  • Broad and general knowledge of cloud technologies and backup strategies for cloud.
    
  • Experience with Commvault and or backup and recovery in a cloud environment (AWS/Azure/Other).
    
  • Good understanding NFS, CIFS, and Fiber Channel protocols.
    
  • Very good experience in supporting and managing backup replication.
    
  • Experience supporting and troubleshooting medium to large scale, multi-site, enterprise storage environments.
    
  • Knowledge of multiple operating systems like windows, Linux and UNIX .
    
  • Basic experience on Cisco Nexus Series Switches is an added advantage.
    
  • Hands-on experience in working on monitoring tools/management platforms.
    
  • Relevant certifications preferred with Commvault and or Storage
    
  • Good understanding of operational frameworks like ITIL/ITSM, and operations process.
    
  • Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
    
  • Willingness to work in shifts and provide on call support in a 24x7 environment.
    
  • Willing to work a hybrid remote/onsite schedule.
    
  • Nice to have - Experience on EMC (VMAX/PMAX, ISILON) with Brocade, Cisco support of some kind.
    
  • Nice to have - Experience in troubleshooting and maintaining SAN infrastructure performance, hardware, and connectivity.
    
  • Nice to have - experience on Cisco and Brocade series FC switches.
    
  • Nice to have - experience on SAN storage provisioning, LUN masking and zoning.
    
  • Nice to have - Experience on Storage capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, reporting, etc.
    

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