Storage & Backup​/Recovery Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Data warehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties:

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX.

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Job Details

Seeking a detail-oriented, highly organized, goal-oriented/driven individual with excellent communication skills to deliver Data Protection, Backup and Recovery services. Candidate will work closely with Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME’s and project teams to deliver solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day global operational activities for Storage and Backup/Recovery teams including administering storage array architecture, SAN infrastructure, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Backup/Restore, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Archival and Retrieval
• Produce regular reports to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and consolidation
• Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure
• Assist in Data Center consolidation efforts
• Analyze Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels. Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison
• Perform H/W monitoring and maintenance
• Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Storage and Backup/Recovery related issues
• Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy. Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups
• Configuring/Managing VMware backups
• Ensure backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Mandatory Skills

• Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool
• Strong Knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts
• AVAMAR server/Client and Administrator console installation
• Experience in Avamar grid configuration in large scale data center deployments
• Multi-site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar)
• Creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients
• Support of backup clients for multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and applications (SQL, Oracle, mysql)
• AVAMAR system migration concepts
• Comfortable using GUI and CLI
• In-depth troubleshooting and support on Avamar Servers, Storage Nodes, NDMP Accelerators
• Data Domain experience with following:
• Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain
• Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle)
• Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory)
• Comfortable using GUI and CLI
• Extended Retention
• Experience in Storage platforms:
• EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARION (BLOCK)
• NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience
• SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco
• Any other Storage like HP, Pure, Hitachi, HP, Tintri or Oracle ZFS will be a plus
• 2 + Years of experience in Storage and Backup/Recover platform with multi-vendor storage solutions (EMC, Net App)
• Should be a Team Player
• Good Communication Skills
• Able to tackle new challenges with little direction
• Experience with vSphere 5.0 is a Plus
• Basic Windows and/or Linux Admin skills
• Basic understanding of Network infrastructure i.e. routing, DNS, etc
• Ability to work under a process-centric ITIL Framework

Assignment Length: 6+ months

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