Director Storage Backup Data Protection Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
InterSources Inc is a certified Small Business Enterprise specializing in IT Consulting and Staffing Solutions. They are seeking a Storage & Backup EMC professional to support EMC Storage devices, manage storage volumes, and ensure data backup and recovery processes are efficient and effective.
Responsibilities:
• Support for EMC Storage devices
• Assign and initialize Storage volumes;
• Provision, Configure and monitor thin provision volumes, where appropriate;
• Determine file and volume placement;
• Configure and Manage RAID parameters;
• Configure and Manage controller optimization (e.g., load balance pair failover);
• For SAP HANA deployments, Configure and Manage General Parallel File System (GPFS):
• Configure de-duplication and compression where applicable;
• Utilize advanced hypervisor integration (e.g. VAAI, VVOL, Storage DRS);
• Configure and Manage data snapshot and replication procedures and Tools;
• Optimize and automate deployment of new Storage capabilities (e.g., scripting);
• Perform rebuilds on crashed volumes and initializing new volumes;
• Continually perform performance tuning of Storage Subsystems in relation to usage patterns by applications and demonstrate obtained efficiencies in storage utilization annually;
• Adhere to and enforce customer disk quota practices;
• Implement Storage Management and optimization processes to Maintain Ralph Lauren directed headroom on all Storage Subsystems and add Capacity as required;
• Support Storage encryption activities, as directed by Ralph Lauren;
• Perform catalog management and data migrations as required;
• Reclaim and wipe Storage volumes;
• Keep firmware, microcode, OS software Updated and current;
• Perform data replication testing
Qualifications:
Required:
• Support for EMC Storage devices
• Assign and initialize Storage volumes
• Provision, Configure and monitor thin provision volumes, where appropriate
• Determine file and volume placement
• Configure and Manage RAID parameters
• Configure and Manage controller optimization (e.g., load balance pair failover)
• For SAP HANA deployments, Configure and Manage General Parallel File System (GPFS)
• Configure de-duplication and compression where applicable
• Utilize advanced hypervisor integration (e.g. VAAI, VVOL, Storage DRS)
• Configure and Manage data snapshot and replication procedures and Tools
• Optimize and automate deployment of new Storage capabilities (e.g., scripting)
• Perform rebuilds on crashed volumes and initializing new volumes
• Continually perform performance tuning of Storage Subsystems in relation to usage patterns by applications and demonstrate obtained efficiencies in storage utilization annually
• Adhere to and enforce customer disk quota practices
• Implement Storage Management and optimization processes to Maintain Ralph Lauren directed headroom on all Storage Subsystems and add Capacity as required
• Support Storage encryption activities, as directed by Ralph Lauren
• Perform catalog management and data migrations as required
• Reclaim and wipe Storage volumes
• Keep firmware, microcode, OS software Updated and current
• Perform data replication testing
• Support for Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, EMC Networker and Avamar software
• Manage redundancy across all backup and Recovery infrastructure
• Implement de-duplication when applicable or otherwise directed by Client
• Support encryption, as required by Client
• Install and Configure add-on Tools that enable specialized backups where required, block-level incremental backups, image bare metal, etc.
• Install and Configure disk array-based mirror and split technologies where appropriate and as determined by Client business requirements
• Install and Configure disk array, data protection appliance and/or disk volume management software-based replication technologies as appropriate and as determined by Client business requirements
• Install and Configure virtual tape libraries and disk-based backups were appropriate based on Client requirements
• Perform regular system backups in accordance with Client backup schedule
• Perform regular tests of backup and restore processes as defined by Client Backup and Recovery procedures and deliver documented results to Client
• In addition to incremental and full backups, perform backups prior to and after Major Level Upgrade Changes and after significant Application Software batch processing periods as requested by Client
• Manage backup data so as to enable the recovery from an Outage or data corruption in compliance with service metrics
• Ensure recovery action is Approved by Client Security Leadership
• Identify the most recent fully recoverable backup and all incremental backups executing on the impacted drive(s)
• If required, retrieve the backup media from offsite Storage
• Communicate to Client a plan and timeline for completing the restore, including interfacing and co-planning with Client application teams, if required
• Execute the recovery by loading the latest fully recoverable backup and then restoring the incremental backups to the impacted drive(s)
• Where implemented, execute a restore to a replicated backup Operating System instance and associated systems Storage
• Test and validate the Normal Operations of the drive(s)
• Return the drive(s) to production
Company:
InterSources Inc. solves operational problems where protection, performance, compliance, AI, and workforce capability must work together. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in Fremont, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.