Description
Data Protection Advisor (DPA) - GDPR
€ per day
Prague, Czech Republic
6 month rolling contract - LONG-TERM CONTRACT
Apollo Solutions are currently recruiting for a Data Protection Advisor/GDPR Specialist on behalf of a global healthcare client, based in Prague. This is a very long-term contract role which currently has no end date.
As the Data Protection Advisor, you will be responsible for identifying, resolving backup infrastructure reporting issues and developing and publishing new backup performance reports. Furthermore you will be accountable for the successful end-to-end deployment, maintenance and monitoring of the DPA production environment.
Essential requirements:
*Excellent experience as Data Protection Advisor or Solution Engineer
*Solid experience in the areas of backup or storage management (Backup or Storage engineering role)
*Experience with Veritas NetBackup, TSM or HPDP in a large IT organization
*Wide range of systems infrastructure design and implementation experience, including Wintel, UNIX and Storage (IP/FC SAN) systems.
*Experience in Windows 2003, 2008, 2012; Linux and AIX
*Experience with administering backup appliances (Data Domains, NetBackup Appliances)
*Working knowledge of WAN and LAN technologies including IP, Switches and Firewalls.
*Good working knowledge of IT infrastructure qualification and/or process validation
*Good understanding of Work Instruction/Installation Qualification process in a pharmaceutical setting.
*Good knowledge of backups, replication, de-duplication, storage, Active Directory and Remedy on demand (RoD), networking.
Key Responsibilities:
*Utilizes previous experience with DPA to use tool to deliver new functionality to the service in the areas of backup monitoring, alerting and reporting.
*Provides senior-level support on the DPA reporting tool in a multi-backup application and infrastructure environment. This is includes but is not limited to TSM, NetBackup, Backup Exec (virtual and physical implementations), HP/DP, Avamar, IBM Tape Libraries, EMC Data Domains and Veritas NetBackup appliances.
*Recommends and implements best practices as it relates to DPA maintenance and backup performance reporting. This includes but is not limited to backup and restore performance, appliance based storage capacity planning and scratch tape pool reporting.
*Acts as a single point of contact for all DPA related topics, including the operation of the DPA software as well as the infrastructure environment it supports. This includes but is not limited to agent deployment, Proxy Server management, network Firewall rules etc.
*Acts as a mentor on the DPA application and database supporting service line management team on the use of the tool to deliver on business requirements.
*Delivers DPA technical maintenance which includes DPA application and database server maintenance as well as maintaining a global network of DPA agents installed on backup infrastructure. This includes but is not limited to installing patches on DPA application and database Servers as well as deploying upgraded agents to all global backup infrastructure supported by DPA.
*Develops technical and business facing reports for technical subjects such as agent health and business subjects such as backup success reports.
*Maintains data supported by external data sources which enrich DPA end user reports.
*Understands complex relationships between different extern data sets used to enrich backup success reports.
*In depth understanding on the utility of external data sets and how they are used to create Smart-Groups which are used in the DPA GUI.
*Troubleshoots connectivity issues between various backup infrastructures and the DPA data collection environment and reports and manages Vendor Service Requests when needed to troubleshoot issues with DPA software.
*Authors technical documentation as needed and ensures that all existing, related DPA documentation contain correct information and are published as necessary.