Senior Systems Engineer II – Backup

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third‑party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
• Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Window servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the security of information throughout the backup infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability including verification of the replication of data, failover copies, redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• Provide 3rd level support.
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date including inventory and patch levels of all systems.

• Minimum of six years' experience with Net Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite experience required.
• Cohesity experience preferred.
• A bachelor's degree is preferred.

Demonstrates expertise in designing and maintaining backup infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments, with a strong focus on security, performance monitoring, and system efficiency through scripting. Proficient in managing backup solutions like Net Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite, ensuring high availability and effective problem resolution.

• Net Backup Experience
• IBM Spectrum Protect Suite Experience
• Backup Infrastructure Design
• Performance Monitoring
• Scripting for System Efficiency

• Backup Infrastructure Design
• Performance Monitoring
• System Management Tools
• Backup Configuration
• Data Replication Verification
• Custom Scripting
• Security Maintenance
• Recovery Process Creation
• Patch Management
• Problem Resolution

• Collaboration
• Vendor Liaison
• Technical Documentation

• Backup Infrastructure
• Data Security
• Virtual Machines
• Bare-Metal Backups
• Redundant Data Sets

• Cohesity
• IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
• Net Backup
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• SAN
• Tape Infrastructure