Backup Engineer

What are we looking for in our Backup Engineer?

Backup Engineer - Darby - 6 months contract - £585 per day inside IR35 Umbrella - SC needed

Applies Backup knowledge to solve complex business requirements and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Uses consulting skills including, but not limited to: interviewing clients to understand business needs, developing technical solutions, and working with multiple teams to accomplish project deliverables.  Capable of consulting, designing, testing, implementing, managing capability requirement.  Able to integrate custom backup infrastructure components into the environment and provide third level production infrastructure support.

Responsibilities

• Daily backup checks across 11 Datazones (airgapped)
• Data Domain management including Disk replacements
• Data Recovery – Tape Archive Solution
• Backup configuration (creation, modification, deletion)
• Adhoc backup & recovery requests
• Monthly reporting of backup statistics
• Weekly Data Domain capacity reporting
• BuR Support for Linux/Wintel/Apps/Storage/Oracle/SQL
• BuR Support for ECOsystem partners
• BuR Support for project team
• ITIL (Incident, Problem, Change)
• RTPA Signoff / HOP

Education and Experience Required

Required:

• Expertise in EMC Networker.
• Automated Tape Library Experience (Small, Medium and Large)
• Virtual Tape Library Experience (StoreOnce, Data Domain)
• Storage Area Network Experience (Brocade, Cisco and or McData)
• Fibre Channel Host BUS Adapter Experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise BUR solutions
• Scripting experience
• Familiar with Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows troubleshooting.

Additional Education desired:

• EMC Networker 9/19.2/19.9
• EMC Data Domain
• Linux
• Windows
• Scripting (Bash/Powershell)
• DDOS 7

Technical Skills

• Demonstrates specialist level of understanding in both server hardware & server operating system deployment, configuration, testing & administration as they relate to the deployed storage solutions
• Participate in the development of new backup solutions within the HP Storage product line (StoreOnce) and backup software – HP Data Protector or Symantec Netbackup.
• Interface with the SMC Operations team, Storage/BUR Engineering team, and Program Office to refine requirements, test applications/tools, support user acceptance testing (UAT), provide status updates and promote solutions into production.

Knowledge and Skills

• Deep understanding of distributed backup and familiarity with several of the major enterprise levels of backup platforms
• Advise, design, and architect advanced backup solutions
• Advanced backup manipulations using advanced array features demonstrating an expert level of backup functionality and performance tuning of the array and the SAN network
• Advanced configuration of backup related software
• Ability to develop solutions that enhance the availability, performance, maintainability and agility of a particular customer’s enterprise. Has contributed to the design and application of new tools. Ability to build upon existing experience to develop new solutions to take to market.
• Strong commercial focus and understanding of the market
• Test and engineer release of new technologies and versions of products / software
• Provide estimates for advanced and major project delivery
• Demonstrates broad knowledge in other technical areas in order to properly manage complex integration efforts. Demonstrates application of technical expertise in successful engagements involving multiple disciplines.
• Ability to present within own area of expertise as part of a customer technical sales presentation, putting forward backup infrastructure-specific information within the context of an HP sales campaign to present a unified end to end enterprise solution
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines with the ability to diagnose complex technical problems to their root cause

Additional Skills desired but not essential

• HBA Configuration
• HP Blade and Enclosure Virtual Connect Technology
• Backup infrastructure Performance Monitoring Tools