Job Description
Sr. Systems Engineer-Back-up & Recovery - Recovery Point
Germantown, MD -hybrid working 2-3 days onsite per week
Direct Hire
GC or USC required
GC or USC required
- RECENT IBM Storage and IBM Global Mirror are a plus
- Pure Storage is strongly preferred (other similar storage will be considered)
- Ideal candidate is local with IBM Storage, IBM Global Mirror, and Pure storage
The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for participating in projects and daily activities that will
create and develop new Disaster Recovery and Backup infrastructure architecture, critical organizational
initiatives, and the implementation of core infrastructure systems. The Senior Systems Engineer must
possess a comprehensive understanding of IT infrastructure combined with the ability to execute
technical solutions that meet the needs of our customers as well as our organization. Additionally, the
Senior Systems Engineer will act as an escalation point within the Engineering team and provide Subject
Matter Expertise on one or many core BaaS and/or DRaaS technologies supporting our Service offerings.
Responsibilities & Essential Functions
• Focused on superior customer service with high energy, professionalism, and welcoming
characteristics.
• Provides clear and accurate customer communication(s) in a timely fashion regarding the status
of their issue or concern.
• Responsible for development & execution of processes and control systems to ensure the
consistent delivery of highly secure & available backup & recovery platforms.
• Completes assigned installs and implementation projects in a timely fashion.
• Develops Infrastructure documentation to accurately reflect the as-built information of the
solution design and includes details of our Backup & Recovery environments.
• Provides clear & accurate communications to the participating Sales or project manager
regarding assigned tasks to meet implementation deadlines and objectives.
· Develop, validate, and maintain our Infrastructure documentation.
• Participate in team on-call rotation including all-hands on deck situations.
• Active participation in customer pre-test planning meetings.
• Close coordination with other internal teams (Network, Mainframe, Power Systems, Hosting, Test
· Management, etc.) in preparation of events.
• Setup and teardown of infrastructures for customer Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Provide technical support during customer exercises.
• Ability to work pre-scheduled alternate shifts to accommodate customer testing.
• Guide customers with technical best practices, product how-to, product updates, and/or
educating customers to maximize their product value.
• Strong ability to work in a highly sensitive and confidential environment including Federal
agencies.
• Implement and manage Customer POCs to technical closure.
• Work closely with the Sales & Product departments to secure new partners and customers.
Qualifications / Requirements
• Five or more years - Industry-based experience with data protection technologies and/or Disaster Recovery software: Veeam Backup & Recovery, Commvault, Carbonite, Zerto, Avamar, etc.
• Five or more years - Industry based experience in storage, network and/or cloud-based
technologies
• Good understanding of virtualization technologies: VMware ESX(i), Microsoft Hyper-V
• Deep understanding of the relationship between RTO and RPO and how to overlay our
Technology & Services to accommodate our customer’s requirements.
• Familiarity with access control models and network security
• Basic understanding of IPv4 & IPv6, routing, switching, gateway, subnets
• Familiar with Protocols such as NFS, CIFS as well Fibre Channel & iSCSI
• Experience working with monitoring tools and SaaS applications.
• Experience in data life-cycle management with IT audit requirements
• Require excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activities.
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, including working on multiple projects.
simultaneously.
• Competent in leading discussions advising Sales on services, solutions & design.
• Ability to operate in a fast pace, team-oriented and collaborative environment with tight
deadlines.
Preferred Experience
• Certifications within the Backup and/or Recovery technologies (eg: VMCE, VMCA, ZCP, VCP, etc)
• Advanced use of engineering level tasks with Linux operating systems (eg: RedHat, CentOS,
• Ubuntu, and SUSE)
• Automation and scripting experience a Plus (eg Ansible, Powershell, Python)
• Three or more years’ experience working in a Managed Services Provider a Plus