Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer
Location: Plano, TX, us
Company Description
Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy
Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)
Job Description
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer
On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX.
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Job Details
Seeking a detail oriented, highly organized, goal oriented/driven individual with excellent communication skills to deliver Data Protection, Backup and Recovery services. Candidate will work closely with Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME’s and project teams to deliver solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide day to day global operational activities for Storage and Backup/Recovery teams including administering storage array architecture, SAN infrastructure, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Backup/Restore, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Archival and Retrieval
- Produce regular reports to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and consolidation
- Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure.
- Assist in Data Center consolidation efforts
- Analyze Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels. Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison
- Perform H/W monitoring and maintenance
- Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Storage and Backup/Recovery related issues
- Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy. Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups
- Configuring/Managing VMware backups
- Ensure backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Mandatory Skills
- Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool.
- Strong Knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts
- AVAMAR server/Client and Administrator console installation.
- Experience in Avamar grid configuration in large scale data center deployments
- Multi-site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar)
- Creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients
- Support of backup clients for multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and applications (SQL, Oracle, mysql)
- AVAMAR system migration concepts
- Comfortable using GUI and CLI
- In depth troubleshooting and support on Avamar Servers, Storage Nodes, NDMP Accelerators
- Data Domain experience with following
o Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain
o Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle)
o Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory)
o Comfortable using GUI and CLI
o Extended Retention
- Experience in Storage platforms:
o EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARION (BLOCK)
o NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience
o SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco
o Any other Storage like HP, Pure, Hitachi, HP, Tintri or Oracle ZFS will be a plus
- 2 + Years of experience in Storage and Backup/Recover platform with multi-vendor storage solutions (EMC, NetApp)
- Should be a Team Player
- Good Communication Skills
- Able to tackle new challenges with little direction
- Experience with vSphere 5.0 is a Plus
- Basic Windows and/or Linux Admin skills
- Basic understanding of Network infrastructure i.e. routing, DNS, etc
- Ability to work under a process-centric ITIL Framework
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Start Date
ASAP
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Assignment Length
6+ months
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.
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