Senior Backup & Storage Architect

A Senior Individual Contributor applies advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and/or technical education as well as work experience. Responsibilities may include managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision, and coaching, delegating, and reviewing the work of lower-level employees. Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.

Responsibilities:-

• Design Backup solutions for on premise and Cloud environment.
• Experience in designing backup infrastructure (on premise tool viz. Commvault) and supplementing with cloud storages.
• Work with vendors to POC new products and enhance capability of existing platforms.
• Experience in Capacity planning and perform analysis of current landscape of Storage workloads and Storage pools. Defining target/Future state of storage landscape.
• Identify the data storage, management, protection, disaster recover requirements of the various applications and business systems in use across the core shared infrastructure.
• Participation in Disaster Recovery infrastructure planning, building, and testing.
• Confers with and advises peers and IT Infrastructure management on technical problems, priorities, and methods.
• Experience supporting mission critical data protection solutions is highly desired, leading POCs, developing test plans, working with internal customers on requirements determination.
• Expert level in enterprise data protection architectures (tape, tapeless, cloud, object storage), concepts (virtualization, archive, deduplication, ), and solutions (CommVault, NetBackup, HPDP, Veeam)
• Deployment, maintenance and Tier3 support of all infrastructure in scope of the backup team.
• Documentation control mechanisms to ensure documentation is maintained and kept up to date
• Assist with planning, testing and providing detailed steps to ensure successful completion of backup hardware and software upgrades and maintenance work
• Capacity Management of backup systems both on premise and cloud resources
• Manage and support all hardware upgrade and software changes around their IBM, EMC, VNX, Hitachi, VMware ESX environment.
• Develop and provide Plan/Build/Operate/Deploy processes for a fully manage desktop strategy.
• Design, create and configure NFS and SMB shares for Unix / Linux & windows environments.
• Develop backup and disaster recovery policies and procedures as it pertains to the primary storage infrastructure.
• Administer NAS and SAN connectivity from storage array to Unix and Linux server clusters.
• Focus areas include infrastructure consolidation, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and cost reduction.
• Experience in migration to new Backup tool which is capable of integrating with Cloud backup options

Qualification And Experience:-

• Experience with systems and IT operations (design, deployment, operation) required
• Experience with backup software vendors is required (Commvault, HPDP, NetBackup and Veeam is desirable).
  Experience with global public clouds (Azure is a plus).
• Operating systems knowledge, including Windows and Linux, is required. AIX and Solaris knowledge would be a plus.
• Experience in handling the enterprise storage systems like EMC, VNX.
• Knowledge in handling the VxRail Systems

Location:-

• Chennai, India.

Company Overview:-

FLSmidth provides sustainable productivity to the global mining and cement industries. We deliver market-leading engineering, equipment and service solutions that enable our customers to improve performance, drive down costs and reduce environmental impact. Our operations span the globe and we are close to 10,117 employees, present in more than 60 countries. In 2021, FLSmidth generated revenue of DKK 17.6 billion. Mission Zero is our sustainability ambition towards zero emissions in mining and cement by 2030.www.flsmidth.com/MissionZero