Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

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 

• Experience in Storage platforms: 

• 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

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