Senior Backup Engineer - SFDCJP00017979 - SFDC Internal
Listed on 2026-08-05
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IT/Tech
Disaster Recovery IT, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, Information Security & Data Protection
Senior Backup Engineer
Location:
Dallas, TX/ Indianapolis, IN
Duration: 10-11 months Pay Rate: $75-85/hr CTC
Responsibilities:- Support and enhance backup infrastructure platforms hosted in our data centers
- Manage and configure server backup policies, retentions, schedules and enable backup/restore and vaulting operations
- Provide ongoing backup administration, maintenance and problem resolution of existing SAN / NAS storage infrastructure and related software
- Implement robust capacity management and monitoring solution for backup infrastructure platform
- Resolve failed backup tickets, identify repetitive patterns of backup failures and come up with a solution as a mitigation effort
- Establish guardrails and KPI metrics on backup and recovery SLAs
- Troubleshoot backup infrastructure performance and stability issues (if any)
- Ensure weekly offsite tape backups are shipped in a timely manner
- Identify performance bottlenecks in the entire backup infrastructure platform and resolve them
- Ensure backup infrastructure certificates are renewed using automation
- Help assist cutting over from current backup solution to next-gen enterprise hybrid cloud backup platform
- Build/support automation to streamline routine backup and restore processes
- Perform software and hardware maintenance including upgrades and vulnerability remediation as top priority
- Perform tech refresh and/or capacity add to existing backup platform based on projected growth
- Help execute/run backups automation using supported CI/CD pipeline
- Enhance and improve routine maintenance and repeatable tasks using automation code and simplify the backup infrastructure deployment/configuration at scale
- Adhere to change and problem management practices and provide timely RCAs for storage related incidents (if any)
- Help assist moving from tapes based to cloud based backup solutions
- Configure, provision, and troubleshoot on Veritas Net backup Master/Media Server, Commvault, Data Domain, and Cisco MDS Fabric Networking
- Participate in evaluation of next generation backup technologies by conducting RFI, RFP, and POCs
- Participate in agile infrastructure software development, scrum, kanban and sprint
- Drive process adoption through documentation, brown bags, tech talks, etc.
- Be available as a technical escalation point for problem resolution
- Assist/train peers and junior engineers in your area of expertise
Required Skills:- Customer service oriented with strong work ethics and leadership skills
- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills, ability to provide alternatives, root cause analysis, testing skills and ability to make thoughtful proposals
- Detail-oriented personality who does not lose sight of the big picture
- A self-starter who inspires others with their work ethic and drive
- Breakdown complex problems into small self-contained workloads
- Be a coder as well as a solution architect in the data protection platform
Required Experience:- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science preferred or equivalent experience
- 6+ years plus experience in engineering and operational work in a global company
- Hands-on experience in designing, implementing, optimizing, and managing global enterprise backup solutions, VTL, PTL, Deduplication, Encryption, Compression, NDMP and Data Replication
- Hands-on experience with cloud and on-premise enterprise backup/storage environments (i.e. EMC VMAX/Power Max, Data domain, SRDF, Snap Mirror, Net App, Veritas Net backup, Commvault, VMware, AWS EC2, EBS, S3, S3 Glacier)
- Deep expertise in designing and implementing HA/DR Solutions in multi-cloud environments, data protection architectures as well as data security, data at rest and data in transit encryption
- Most Recent experience with cloud-based software development tools and methodologies (e.g. Git, CI/CD, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, Jenkin, Build Automation and Testing, etc.)
- Experience in administrative languages (i.e. Python, Power Shell, Ruby, Go Lang, Bash, etc).
- Experience with configuration management tools (i.e. Puppet, Ansible, etc).
- Experience with Rest API and usage of native API programming.
- Experience in Red Hat/CentOS/Windows and VMware technologies.
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