Description
Back up and Recovery/SAN Engineer
Job Description for SAN Engineer
- Evaluate customer needs based on applications requirements, current capacity and growth trends
- Deliver engineering specifications, assist with functional specifications, and collaborate on technical designs and specifications for projects and initiatives.
- Estimate effort, both development and product delivery timelines, to determine a course of action for project.
- Provide technical input for specific storage and backup needs or objectives in order to meet business requirements.
- Work closely with external vendors and other personnel in order to optimize and facilitate the best solution to meet the needs of the business.
- Provide technical services for customers in a highly complex storage and backup environments. Demonstrate ability to assess technical impact to the project/new technology along with technical risks.
- Resolve complex problems with little or no guidance. Independently research and promote specialized technical solutions.
- Analyse complex hardware and software issues associated with backup and storage related technologies specifically HP Data Protector and SAN (HP 3par).
- Analyse, design, test, document, and implement solutions for continuous data availability, integrity, backup and protection.
- Define and specify architecture protocols and functional requirements and specifications for storage and backup components.
- Strong background in enterprise data protection, management and protection solutions. Must be able to design and implement new data protection solutions, manage change, and add backup policies in a large-scale, mission-critical, multi-PB storage environment. Must have wide-ranging experience and the ability to apply that experience along with professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in effective ways.
- Demonstrate domain knowledge in storage, data management and data protection technologies and be able apply the knowledge of these methodologies to the storage, protection, retention, reclamation, and disaster recovery.
- Manage, configure and maintain multi-PB multi-tiered environment.
- Report on performance and capacities and make allocation recommendations based on trending. Ensure the environments remain compliant with vendor recommended patching standards.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance discussions and assist in development and execution of disaster recovery exercises.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of HP Data Protector and other back-up technologies
- Knowledge of SAN (HP 3par) and other SAN technologies
- Experience with Enterprise data protection and disaster recover solution, and understand Enterprise application data management requirements
Non-technical Qualifications:
- Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership skills are required.
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation are necessary. Active listening skills are required.
- Excellent ability to proactively identify and resolve issues and opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and in environments dealing with ambiguity.
- 5+ years of Backup and Storage Engineering experience.