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Senior Backup Engineer - SFDCJP00017979 - SFDC Internal

Omega Solutions, Inc.

Santa Clara, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 20 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Support and enhance backup infrastructure platforms hosted in data centers.

  • Manage and configure server backup policies, retentions, schedules, and enable backup/restore and vaulting operations.

  • Troubleshoot backup performance and stability issues, resolve failed backup tickets, and identify patterns of backup failures.

Job description

Job Summary:
Omega Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backup Engineer to support and enhance backup infrastructure platforms. The role involves managing server backup policies, troubleshooting backup performance issues, and assisting in the transition to next-gen enterprise hybrid cloud backup solutions.
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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
• 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, NetApp, 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, PowerShell, 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 RedHat/CentOS/Windows and VMware technologies.
Preferred:
• Experience with Cohesity, Rubrik, Networker, Avamar, a Consumer Electronics company EMC DP Suite would be plus
• Experience with SYMCLI, NAVISECCLI, Cisco DCNM
• Experience in SAN expansion in Cisco fabrics environment.
• Background in Information Security;
• Familiarity with LDAP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, IPSEC, PKI, SSL, TLS, TACACS+ protocol.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Splunk, Grafana, Nagios, etc)
• Nice to have - Experience with other cloud providers (i.e. Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Two or more industry certifications
Company:
Omega was incorporated in 2007 in the State of California to offer high end IT Solutions ranging from IT Software and product development to technology deployment and specialize in providing software solutions to diverse business sectors in USA and World-wide. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.

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