<p><strong>Systems Engineer – Backup/Storage</strong></p> <p><span>Systems engineer’s primary responsibility is monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting the company’s backup environments. Secondarily, he is responsible for document backup systems related procedures, policies…etc.<br/> The candidate should be able to work with the other Operations teams such as systems and database administrators, software engineers/QA, technical product managers and vendors on the incidents, tasks and problems.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span><strong><span>Accountabilities/Responsibility</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Provide support services for Storage & Backup Infrastructure.</span></li> <li><span>Experience with documenting processes and support procedures.</span></li> <li><span>Provide on-call assistance for storage & backup related infrastructure/datacenter operations</span></li> <li><span>Provide support for infrastructure and application development projects that are related to Backup infrastructure.</span></li> <li><span>Monitoring all the devices in storage/backup infrastructure to ensure proactive measures on failures.</span></li> <li><span>Maintenance of storage/VTLs/ Tape libraries and associated software at top levels of performance by monitoring version upgrades and maintenance releases to ensure that environment is optimally configured.</span></li> <li><span>Works within change management process to ensure that outages are scheduled with minimum impact on clients, but still maintain all hardware and software at optimal levels.</span></li> <li><span>Tape/Disk based backup, restoration and audit responsibilities.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span><span>Technical Competency</span></span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span>Experience as a Systems/Storage or Backup engineer (2yrs)</span></li> <li><span>Good knowledge on Linux/Windows operating environments.</span></li> <li><span>Good knowledge on Symantec/Networker/TSM backup software will be an added qualification.</span></li> <li><span>Manage the backup and restoration of systems using enterprise data protection software mentioned above.</span></li> <li><span>Installation, administration, configuration change & software maintenance of data protection software.</span></li> <li><span>Daily monitoring of scheduled backups of all data protection software (TSM, Networker & NetBackup) and take necessary actions on failed and missed backups.</span></li> <li><span>Diagnose platform related issues (server and client side) and provide support in complex, business-critical environment including physical and virtual infrastructure.</span></li> <li><span>Knowledge of storage administration and the concepts of file systems, disk partitions, mounts, quotas, mirroring and sizing.</span></li> <li><span>Evaluates and applies software/firmware upgrades and support packs as required to solve problems and to ensure the system integrity and the compliance.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span><strong><span>Educational & Professional Qualifications</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Networking or Engineering or Equivalent professional qualification.</span></li> <li><span>Certifications on RedHat Linux/Microsoft Windows.</span></li> <li><span>Certifications on EMC Networker, Veritas NetBackup & Tivoli Storage Manager will be an added qualification.</span></li> </ul> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span><strong><span>Non-Technical Competency</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Should have very good verbal & written communication skills.</span></li> <li><span>Should be willing to work on extended and irregular hours when required.</span></li> <li><span>Strong self-starter, motivated to help TEAM in their deliverables.</span></li> <li><span>Ability to work on multiple simultaneous tasks in parallel and prioritize between them</span></li> <li><span>Ability to work with minimal supervision.</span></li> <li><span>Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation.</span></li> <li><span>Strong documentation skills.</span></li> <li><span>Excellent organizational and time management skills.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span><strong><span>Please click the link to apply - </span>https://tas-pearson.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1601596</strong></span></p>