Job Title: Storage Engineer (Data Protection Services)

Location: Hartford, CT

Job Description

• Seeking an experienced and versatile Data Protection / Backup and Recovery Services Engineer who will be responsible for the overall architecture design, implementation, and maintenance of an evolving global large-scale, highly available, 24×7, enterprise IT Data Protection Services (DPS) environment. Responsibilities: The overall objectives of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Recommend, implement, and deliver technology solutions based on analysis and business requirements. Manage / Maintain DPS Technology roadmaps, aligned with IT Strategy.
• Develop processes and methodology for testing, deployment, and maintenance to ensure scalability, consistency, and maintainability in an effort to decrease restore time and increase availability. Automation experience desirable.
• Develop logging, metrics, and reporting programs to facilitate performance, security, monitoring, and predictive analysis.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed; ensure integrity of connectivity and optimization of sites and systems; provide DPS performance statistics and reports.
• Create and maintain documentation for configuration, system mappings, processes, and service records.
• Produce reports and provide updates to the executive level of management on both positive performance and areas requiring improvement within the stack.
• The ability to manage operational service provider resources to effectively keep the DPS environment running optimally.
• Maintaining an understanding of deployed solutions, potential issues, requirements, and service gaps
• Assuring solutions are aligned with business objectives for resiliency, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance

Qualifications :

• Strong understanding of DPS Suites.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with all levels of staff and an established history and track record of providing excellent customer service
• Experience with enterprise storage systems (NetApp, Isilon, XtremIO, VMAX,VNX, VNXe, NetBackup, Spectrum Protect )
• Good Experience with Microsoft Windows Server, Linux & HPUX and strong working knowledge of LAN and WAN topologies
• Experience installing, supporting, migrating and troubleshooting DPS technologies.
• Experience with EMC Networker, Data Domain , Avamar, Rubrik , Igneous , Veritas Netbackup, Backup , AWS & Azure Public Clouds
• Expertise in designing and implementing highly available DPS solutions
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, storage, and general network best practices. Knowledge of infrastructure server hardware. Cisco UCS / HPE Servers / Nutanix Hyperconverged
• Proven ability to meet designated deadlines, exhibit professional business practices, and demonstrate the ability to manage multiple initiatives. Ability to manage tasks and assignments with little supervision”