Take part in a team effort to support 24x365 backup operation and management and be responsible for ensuring that we are adhering the backup policies and backup schedule.
Assist with management of available capacity to ensure no delays are realized due to lack of resources. This will include compute, storage, and network bandwidth requirements.
Work with multiple teams to analyze and develop detailed plans for the migration of services to alternative hosting locations where applicable. Focus will be on cloud technologies where possible.
Communicate weekly updates to IT Continuity manager on status of backup operations and ongoing projects.
Where possible, identify improvements in migration processes and implement automation to reduce time and resources required to complete the tasks.
Ensure all change management processes are followed as required and ensure all asset management processes are followed as required, including the decommissioning and disposal of equipment no longer used.
Apart from migration, manage health checks of backup and replication every day, and fix any issue that arises to ensure backup and replication SLAs are met
Identify repeatable operational tasks and issues; create automated resolutions to these situations to reduce operational overhead within the virtualization function as well as other enabling areas as required.
Optimization and performance of hardware infrastructure.
Experience using Avamar DPA to provide backup and replication reports and relevant dashboards
Ability to implement best practices to drive business continuity, high availability, backup, data recovery and disaster recovery
Effectively implement changes to procedures that drive meeting SLA’s and KPI’s.
Ability to influence the team and senior leaders to accept new approaches
Motivated to obtain and maintain certifications
Excellent communication skills. Strong ability to communicate opportunities both orally and written to technical and non-technical audiences;
Ability to operate in a structured environment
Able to prioritize multiple initiatives in an agile environment
Domain expertise: Enterprise Backup & Recovery systems / Enterprise Replication and Disaster Recovery technologies / DPM / Other Enterprise Backup & Recovery Solutions OR strong expertise on working and troubleshooting Windows/Azure/Linux VMs related issues.
DPM expertise
Experience with Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, On-Prem Backup and restore, Virtualization, VMWare, Networking, Infrastructure
Experience with Power Shell or Python or similar scripting languages
Industry experience with Microsoft® Windows operating systems both current and legacy (preferred) and System Center Suite
Working knowledge of System Center Data Protection Manager, or other Backup solutions in the industry