Contract Avamar Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Suncap Technology is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to work onsite in New York City for a two-month contract. The role involves managing daily operations and implementations related to Avamar and Data Domain systems, as well as leading multiple data protection projects for the customer.
Responsibilities:
• Check and confirm all systems maintenance are running fine and take necessary action to resolve if any on all ten Avamar servers (Two physical servers & eight virtual servers) and eleven Data Domains (Two DD 9800 model & Nine DD9900 model)
• Monitor Daily backup failures (VM Snapshot, NAS, DB2, Oracle, file system backups)
• Restore request as needed by customer.
• Create DPA reports for customer.
• Please check LPR backups complete on both MDC/PSAC2
• Computer Crimes NAS backup, check current year is completing and you may have to manually manage backups for older years.
• Work with support for any hardware issues such as disk or memory failures and work with CE's
• Knowledgeable with Elastic Cloud to support in case of any troubleshooting issues such as updating certificates, Disk replacements and reporting with support.
• Perform upgrades to Data Domain
• Monitor CloudIQ for DPS and resolve open issues.
• Perform upgrades to Avamar & DPA
• Attend meetings with Customer to go over any issues related to backup.
• Attend CAB (ServiceNow) meetings.
• In addition to the day to day operations outlined above, the resource will be responsible for multiple active projects at any given time based on direction from the customer.
• Current projects the resource will be work on are:
• Data protection capacity expansion project – Managing and rebalance Data Domain data across all the arrays in the CC cluster. Responsibilities include design, deployment, and data migration
• Avamar virtualization project – design and implementation of Avamar virtualization and reduce the hardware, power, and maintenance cost across all data centers.
• As of date there are eight virtualized Avamar across multiple DC and two physical Avamar servers at 1PP, MDC and PSAC2.
• There is one virtual Avamar ready to be deployed at PSac2 DC and is waiting for DD.
• And there is one Data Domain DD9900 to be built at 1PP and a virtual Avamar to be deployed
• DPS MDC refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center.
• Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from MDC to 1PP, and load balance the data to MDC PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD.
• DPS PSAC2 refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center.
• Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from PSAC2 to 1PP, and load balance the data to PSAC2 PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD.
• Recalling Data off PAQ ECS to PSAC2 Data Domain and migrating data to balance across Core DD (Almost done, less than 10% to be recalled and then migrated)
• Works with customer server team, network team, application teams, and security team (example request via ServiceNow – for Avamar VM build, Firewall, plug plan (Ports), VLAN, cabling, backup requirements such as scheduling/retention, etc.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Must have skills: PPDM, Avamar 19.8 & later, Data Domain 7.7 & later. DPA 19.4 & later
• Daily Operations/Implementation
• Check and confirm all systems maintenance are running fine and take necessary action to resolve if any on all ten Avamar servers (Two physical servers & eight virtual servers) and eleven Data Domains (Two DD 9800 model & Nine DD9900 model)
• Monitor Daily backup failures (VM Snapshot, NAS, DB2, Oracle, file system backups)
• Restore request as needed by customer
• Create DPA reports for customer
• Please check LPR backups complete on both MDC/PSAC2
• Computer Crimes NAS backup, check current year is completing and you may have to manually manage backups for older years
• Work with support for any hardware issues such as disk or memory failures and work with CE's
• Knowledgeable with Elastic Cloud to support in case of any troubleshooting issues such as updating certificates, Disk replacements and reporting with support
• Perform upgrades to Data Domain
• Monitor CloudIQ for DPS and resolve open issues
• Perform upgrades to Avamar & DPA
• Attend meetings with Customer to go over any issues related to backup
• Attend CAB (ServiceNow) meetings
• In addition to the day to day operations outlined above, the resource will be responsible for multiple active projects at any given time based on direction from the customer
• Current projects the resource will be work on are: Data protection capacity expansion project – Managing and rebalance Data Domain data across all the arrays in the CC cluster
• Responsibilities include design, deployment, and data migration
• Avamar virtualization project – design and implementation of Avamar virtualization and reduce the hardware, power, and maintenance cost across all data centers
• As of date there are eight virtualized Avamar across multiple DC and two physical Avamar servers at 1PP, MDC and PSAC2
• There is one virtual Avamar ready to be deployed at PSac2 DC and is waiting for DD
• And there is one Data Domain DD9900 to be built at 1PP and a virtual Avamar to be deployed
• DPS MDC refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center
• Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from MDC to 1PP, and load balance the data to MDC PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD
• DPS PSAC2 refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center
• Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from PSAC2 to 1PP, and load balance the data to PSAC2 PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD
• Recalling Data off PAQ ECS to PSAC2 Data Domain and migrating data to balance across Core DD (Almost done, less than 10% to be recalled and then migrated)
• Works with customer server team, network team, application teams, and security team (example request via ServiceNow – for Avamar VM build, Firewall, plug plan (Ports), VLAN, cabling, backup requirements such as scheduling/retention, etc)
Preferred:
• Nice to have skills: Knowledge of any of the following: Isilon, CloudIQ, Vcenter, NDMP ServiceNow, Office 365, Networking, FTP, and engaging support
• Good to have scripting and familiar with UNIX & PowerShell commands
Company:
Suncap Technology is a staffing firm that provides recruiting and financial staffing services. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Davie, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.