Network Engineer

22nd Century Technologies … We are Government Software integrators working with DoD and civilian space and are fast growing company in DoD sector with clients like US Air Force, US Navy and Army.

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22nd Century Technologies is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

Duration: 12 Months

Work Location: COLUMBIA, South Carolina

This position will require AVAMAR experience. It is first and foremost a Backup/Restore critical position.

• At least 5 years experience in Information Technology, with emphasis past 2 years on AVAMAR.
• AVAMAR server/Client and Administrator console features and procedures
• Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy.
• Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups.
• Strong Knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts
• Should understand the EMC Avamar process flow & error codes
• Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of backup and recovery related issues.
• Experience in analyzing problems, escalation to appropriate Levels. Hardware/software fault detection and vendor liaison
• Good knowledge on DR and Restoring backups based on requirement. Configuring Events, Notifications.
• Demonstrate experience in generating different kind of backup reports and sending to customer.
• Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure.
• Consults with end users to coordinate scheduling of backups and address other backup and recovery concerns.
• Responsible for strategic planning related to ongoing enhancement of large backup and recovery environment
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure systems for Windows environments
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills a must.
• Able to conduct research into infrastructure issues and products as required.
• Leading effective team meetings
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Highly self motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experienced hardware troubleshooting.
• Able to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

• Strong Knowledge De‑duplication & VTL’s Backup performance monitoring & optimization Capacity utilization trending and reporting
• Experience with in a NIST and/or PCI environment.
• Backup Infrastructure for Load balancers, MSSQL using EMC Avamar and perform end to end setup and execute the necessary use cases and test-cases on it in order to optimize the performance
• EMC certified (Information Storage and Management “EMCISA” and Backup/Recovery “EMCBA” minimum) or five years equivalent experience.
• Ability to craft proactive and automated scripts and tools
• Expert with Active Directory administration
• Hands‑on technical knowledge of network and server operating systems
• Working technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards, including TCP/IP, and DNS, DHCP.
• Experience in developing and maintaining documentation for policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Hands‑on experience analyzing, designing, DOCUMENTING, and deploying large scale virtualization and SAN environments
• Experience designing 99.9% uptime environments (HA and DR experience required)
• Experience designing and supporting EMC storage, including but not limited to EMC NS‑480, VNX 5700, and VMAX storage lines.
• Experience designing backup strategies for large scale organizations based on best practices
• Current industry certifications for Microsoft, Security, VMware, Cisco
• Experience with firewalls, web…