Data Protection Administrator/Storage Admin at The Judge Group Inc. in EWING, New Jersey

Job Description:

Location: Ewing, NJ

Description: Our client is currently seeking a Data Protection Administrator/Storage Admin.


Position: Data Protection Administrator/Storage Administrator


Position Summary:

• install and configure data protection solutions and perform day-to-day operational management of the data protection environment

• design and test data recovery in simulated disaster recovery and malware related events

• technical lead for the team in quarterly Disaster Recovery exercises

• supporting role in the installation and configuration of storage solutions and the day-to-day operational management of the storage environment


Experience: "hands on" configuration and management of some of the following technologies:

• Data Protection: Commvault, Veeam, N2WS (CPM), AWS Backup

• Network Attached Storage (NAS): EMC Isilon, AWS FSx

• Object storage: AWS S3

• Block storage: EMC Unity, EMC VNXe, PURE X-series

• storage networking: Cisco MDS, DCNM


Requirements:

• hand-on experience working in support of a production IT environment

• strong communication skills

• ability to manage and escalate incidents and to see them through to resolution

• experience supporting virtual environments and operating systems: windows, vmware, linux, aws-ec2

• experience in documenting procedures, environments, and project work

• participation in a 7-day on call rotation and occasional weekend work


Responsibilities:

• Data management:

o Implement and continually improve data protection and data security

o Verify and validate backup data through quarterly restore testing

o Investigate technologies to pro-actively run malware scans of backup data

o Review the daily backup reports and replication reports and identity/resolve issues

• Incident management:

o Take ownership of incidents, work to resolution and identify root cause

o Work with various IT teams when need to troubleshoot and resolve issues

• Operations and monitoring:

o Daily monitoring and reporting of data backup and recovery activities

o Storage management: block and NAS capacity allocations, SAN zoning, etc.

o Maintain storage applications: patching, upgrades, feature configuration

o Perform daily monitoring and performance analysis of the storage and backup components

o Manage change requests, work orders and support tickets and see them through to completion

• Support various computing environments:

o Ability to identify and deliver solutions for on premise, cloud, and hybrid environments

o Ability to understand and apply appropriate security concepts, controls, and processes

o Participate in annual business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) testing.

• Training:

o Proactively stay in-step with technology changes through self-learning

o Cross-train team members

o Attend technical and security-oriented training sessions to learn new and develop existing skills

o Network with peers


Desired Length and Type of Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in a production Information Technology environment

• 3+ years of experience managing Data Protection solutions/environments


Joy Provenzano


The Judge Group


jprovenzano@judge.com


732-497-4246

Contact: jprovenzano@judge.com


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