Company & Position Summary
Company: Healthtech
The position is to be a lead engineer to support the improvement in resiliency and robustness of enterprise backup & storage infrastructures and implementation & deployment of new infrastructure, technology refresh and upgrade.
Role, and Responsibilities
Backup Implementation & Administration
- Backup & Recovery administration and operation support (Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Appliances, Rubrik, Data-Domain Appliances, ECS Appliances)
Storage Implementation & Administration
- Storage implementation and administration of HDS Storage, PURE & DELL SAN Storage, HDS & Isilon NAS Storage, CISCO SAN Switches
HCI and Virtualization
- Understanding on Hyper Converge Infrastructure (HCI) and Virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Nutanix, Hyper-V
Automation and Observability
- Inclination & experience with observability and scripting to automate routine tasks to drive operational efficiency.
- Review existing storage and backup infrastructure and provide recommendations and plan to improve resiliency, robustness, and performance of the infrastructure as well as save cost.
- Explore new technologies, capabilities and features to improve backup & storage infrastructure.
- Hands-on implementation experience with new technologies and products.
- Perform evaluation of potential backup & storage solutions & technologies, Proof-of-Concept (PoC) and provide recommendation & justification of the solutions.
- Architect and design new backup & storage infrastructure as per industrial best practices to achieve optimal resiliency, performance, and efficient usage.
- Develop methodologies and best practices in implementing backup & storage solutions for Mission Critical Systems
- Design and implement data migration methodology for backup & storage infrastructure across datacenters.
- Lead, implement and deploy new backup & storage infrastructure as well as improvement of existing infrastructure.
- Set up backup administration, storage virtualization, data snapshot, data migration.
- Implement backup and storage solutions to support HCI and Virtualized environments.
- Plan Disaster Recover (DR), and prepare readiness of backup & recovery and storage data replication across datacenters to support DR.
- Integrate backup and storage devices with monitoring, log analysis, security operation, Active Directory, automation, etc.
- Inclination & experience with scripting (strong interest) to automate routine tasks to drive operational efficiency.
- Experience with observability and automation tools/platforms (preferred)
- Automate redundant tasks to improve efficiency in administration & operation support of the infrastructure.
- Create and update operational documents, configuration, and performance health check processes & procedures.
- Perform backup & Storage administration including health-check, monitoring, problem resolution, configuration, deployment, provisioning, zoning, and performance tuning, etc.
- Harden, scan and fix security vulnerabilities and upgrade software & firmware of backup and storage devices
- Own and manage incidents/problems, investigate root cause and provide findings & resolution.
- Recommend process, product or service improvements, resource optimization and cost savings.
- Conduct Knowledge Transfer and training to backup and storage administrators
Experience / Requirements
- Holder of Degree in IT / Computer Engineering
- Must be a team player with at least 5 years’ experience in architect, design, deployment and administration of storage and backup infrastructure.
- Good knowledge & experience in working on multiple Backup Software and Backup Appliances preferably Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Appliances, Rubrik, Data-Domain Appliances, DELL ECS Backup Appliances, etc.
- Good knowledge & experience in working on multiple SAN and NAS storage products preferably Hitachi, Pure Storage, EMC, Isilon and CISCO MDS SAN switches.
- Good knowledge and experience in HCI, Virtualization deployment.
- Strong knowledge in hardware & systems software administration, data backup & recovery, replication, off-host backup, etc.
- Scripting and automation
- A service-oriented person with effective interpersonal, communication, presentation and negotiation skills
- Good command of written and oral English and ability to communicate clearly with people at different levels.
- Ability to think out of the box and work independently.
- Certifications in backup and storage management will be an advantage.
- Certification in ITIL
EA Licence No: 11C5502 | EAP Registration No: R22109400
