Procom Consultants Group is hiring a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

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 o Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain o Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle) o Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory) o Comfortable using GUI and CLI o Extended Retention - Experience in Storage platforms: o EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARITION (BLOCK) o NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience o SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco o Any other Storage like HP, Pure, Hitachi, HP, Tintri or Oracle ZFS will be a plus - 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