Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy
Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer
On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX.
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Job Details
Seeking a detail oriented, highly organized, goal oriented/driven individual with excellent communication skills to deliver Data Protection, Backup and Recovery services. Candidate will work closely with Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME’s and project teams to deliver solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide day to day global operational activities for Storage and Backup/Recovery teams including administering storage array architecture, SAN infrastructure, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Backup/Restore, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Archival and Retrieval
- Produce regular reports to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and consolidation
- Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure.
- Assist in Data Center consolidation efforts
- Analyze Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels. Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison
- Perform H/W monitoring and maintenance
- Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Storage and Backup/Recovery related issues
- Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy. Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups
- Configuring/Managing VMware backups
- Ensure backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Mandatory Skills
- Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool.
- Strong Knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts
- AVAMAR server/Client and Administrator console installation.
- Experience in Avamar grid configuration in large scale data center deployments
- Multi-site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar)
- Creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients
- Support of backup clients for multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and applications (SQL, Oracle, mysql)
- AVAMAR system migration concepts
- Comfortable using GUI and CLI
- In depth troubleshooting and support on Avamar Servers, Storage Nodes, NDMP Accelerators
- Data Domain experience with following
o Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain
o Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle)
o Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory)
o Comfortable using GUI and CLI
o Extended Retention
- Experience in Storage platforms:
o EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARION (BLOCK)
o NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience
o SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco
o Any other Storage like HP, Pure, Hitachi, HP, Tintri or Oracle ZFS will be a plus
- 2 + Years of experience in Storage and Backup/Recover platform with multi-vendor storage solutions (EMC, NetApp)
- Should be a Team Player
- Good Communication Skills
- Able to tackle new challenges with little direction
- Experience with vSphere 5.0 is a Plus
- Basic Windows and/or Linux Admin skills
- Basic understanding of Network infrastructure i.e. routing, DNS, etc
- Ability to work under a process-centric ITIL Framework
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Start Date
ASAP
Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Assignment Length
6+ months
Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.
Skills Required
- Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool
- Strong knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts
- Avamar server/client and administrator console installation experience
- Avamar grid configuration in large-scale data center deployments
- Multi-site Avamar-to-Avamar replication experience
- Creating/modifying backup policies and configuring backup clients
- Support backup clients on Windows and RHEL and applications (SQL, Oracle, MySQL)
- Avamar system migration concepts
- Comfortable using GUI and CLI for administration
- In-depth troubleshooting of Avamar servers, storage nodes, NDMP accelerators
- Data Domain experience, including Avamar integration and DDBOOST plugin support
- Data Domain multi-site replication and extended retention experience
- Experience with EMC VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON storage platforms
- NetApp FAS series NAS/SAN (cDOT or 7-Mode) experience
- SAN switch experience (Brocade or Cisco)
- Experience with HP, Pure, Hitachi, Tintri, or Oracle ZFS (plus)
- 2+ years experience in storage and backup/recovery on multi-vendor solutions (EMC, NetApp)
- Team player with good communication skills
- Able to tackle new challenges with little direction (self-directed)
- Experience with vSphere 5.0
- Basic Windows and/or Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of network infrastructure (routing, DNS)
- Ability to work under a process-centric ITIL framework
What We Do
Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada, and one of North America's leading staffing and contract workforce services providers. The company specializes in connecting IT talent with opportunity, delivering flexible IT staffing solutions and professional services to help organizations overcome technology gaps and drive transformation.
