Sr Principal Backup Administrator

What Success Looks Like In This Role

• Performs higher-level, advanced storage or backup duties including:
  • Storage Design and maintain Cyber Recovery vault architecture
  • Manage air-gapped vault operations
  • Configure vault policies and replication schedules
  • Validate cyber-recovery copies
  • Conduct cyber recovery drills and tabletop exercises
  • Troubleshoot Cyber Recovery jobs and vault synchronization
  • Analyze logs and monitor backup activity, identifying errors and anomalies, recommending corrective action as required
  • CyberSense installation and upgrades
  • DataDomain, Avamar, and PPDM experience
• Works with management to:
  • Understand backup utilization, lifecycle, and protection requirements
  • Develop these into effective and workable solutions and processes
  • Help develop backup policies and procedures, ensuring their communication to relevant stakeholders
• Develops and implements automated solutions to support operational objectives
• Provides recommendations to improve backup design and reduce cost
• Evaluates user needs or problems and takes appropriate action to resolve
• Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes
• Reviews system and application logs, verifies completion of scheduled jobs, including backups
• Supports efforts to determine storage allocation, backup, and data restoration
• Performs technical configuration changes
• Facilitates offsite storage
• Supports efforts to evaluate new hardware and software management solutions
• Monitors system performance and generates reports and analysis of storage resources
• Installs, upgrades, and configures backup appliances
• Performs backup environment performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Handles and responds to high priority tickets and instances
• Installs and configures data protection software and associated components
• Sets up data duplication disk pools and related backup devices
• Ensures ongoing replication between locations
• Performs a range of system recovery and data restores based on client and/or company request
• Diagnoses platform issues, assisting with root cause analysis and change / risk assessment
• Supports system / process improvement planning and implementation
• Provides support for storage system users – investigating, analyzing, and resolving basic SAN or network attached storage (NAS) issues
• Configures and manages user, group, permission, and related system access protocol

Requirements

• BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology; applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government