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Avamar Consultant

Brentwood, TN

Help install Avamar, replication from remote site to central DC, fine tune the backup jobs and KT. Resource needs to be onsite as remote isn't allowed by customer Requirement 2 Position: AVAMAR_2601 ...

USM

Avamar Consultant

Mooresville, NC · Remote

Help install Avamar, replication from remote site to central DC, fine tune the backup jobs and KT. Resource needs to be onsite as remote isn't allowed by customer Qualifications Position: Avamar 2609 ...

Nasscomm

Backup Architect

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$61 - $79.50/hr

Backup Architect Onsite in Atlanta, GA 3 months Backup Architect level that is deeply technical with the following: • Commvault Simpana 9&10 • Data Domain Certified under EMC Proven • Avamar ...

TecTammina

Storage & Backup Consultant

Trumbull, CT

... Avamar and DataDomain. Experience with converged infrastructure technology such as Cisco UCS and vBLOCK Qualifications Education : Bachelor's Degree or higher Additional Information Job Status ...

Two Six Technologies

Systems Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$146.40K - $263.80K/yr

Avamar backup software * Linux knowledge * Knowledge of iSCSI and storage arrays * Networking Skills Clearance Requirement: • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph #LI-JS Two Six Technologies is committed ...

Hi-Tech Solutions

CommVault Engineer

Miami, FL · On-site

Company Description Information Technology and Services Qualifications 1. Minimum 8 to 10 + Years' experience managing multiple Backup technologies like Comm-vault, Networker, Data Domain, Avamar etc ...

Hi-Tech Solutions

CommVault Engineer

Miami, FL

Company Description Information Technology and Services Qualifications 1. Minimum 8 to 10 + Years' experience managing multiple Backup technologies like Comm-vault, Networker, Data Domain, Avamar etc ...

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Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

Procom Consultants Group

Plano, TX

Contractor

Posted 4 days ago

Job description

Company Description

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
Datawarehouse & 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)

Job Description

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 
o Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain 
o Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle) 
o Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory) 
o Comfortable using GUI and CLI 
o Extended Retention 
- Experience in Storage platforms: 
o EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARION (BLOCK) 
o NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience 
o SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco 
o 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, NetApp) 
- 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

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Start Date

ASAP

Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Assignment Length

6+ months

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only. 

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