Full-Time Infrastructure Backup Engineer
NECSWS is hiring a remote Full-Time Infrastructure Backup Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Bracknell, United Kingdom based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We’re on the lookout for an Infrastructure Backup Engineer who is passionate about Infrastructure backup.
The individual will be involved in providing high quality Infrastructure backup support to a large multi-client community as part of a customer focused backup support team. They will also support MS Windows server and will need good understanding of Unix and Linux technologies.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing day to day global operational activities for Backup/Recovery teams including administering Enterprise Backup/Restore and Archival and Retrieval
- Ensuring all support calls are dealt with within the SLA timescales
- Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure
- Creating and Managing Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy.
- Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups
- Configuring/Managing VMware, OVM & OSSP backups
- Ensuring backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar
- Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Backup/Recovery related issues
- Proactive backup maintenance of systems, installing patches, upgrades etc
- Carrying out all backups and log checking
- Identifying, interpreting and evaluating system and network requirements
- Able to produce reports from Avamar to assist in backup success/failure, capacity planning and consolidation
Occasional travel and work at other NEC Software Solutions sites across the UK as required
Essential
- Most recent role must have been based in backup technology
- Extensive Experience with both creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients
- Demonstrable Experience on Enterprise Level Backup Systems
- Hands on experience with Multi Site Replication
- Eligible for Security Clearance
- Hands on experience with GUI or CLI
- Recent working experience with vSphere
Desirable
- Experience working within an ITIL Environment
- Experience with the support of backup of clients for multiple operating systems (Windows/Linux/OSSP) and applications (SQL/Oracle/mysql)
- Hands on experience, or knowledge of Dell Avamar Systems
- Experience working within a large scale Data Centre Environment
- Basic Understanding of Network Infrastructure – i.e. Routing, DNS