Backup Administrator with Avamar

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Plano, TX - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 13-10-2025
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position: Backup Administrator with Avamar

Location: -Plano TX (5 Days onsite & 24x7 Rotational)

Shift: Rotational Shift

Full time Position

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Support a variety of backup configurations and platforms
  • Perform routine systems maintenance upgrades capacity planning and administration
  • Responsible for development documentation and standardizing preventative maintenance routines to ensure system availability and performance standards on production systems
  • Investigate and troubleshoot incidents and provide resolution within defined service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Communicate effectively with various entities including client technical and non-technical resources
  • Schedule and enable backup based on standardized procedures detailed in the Operational Run Book and to meet customer agreed upon standards.
  • Proactively monitor and report performance utilization of backup technologies
  • Handling major issues (P1/P2) and working on backup environmental errors with the vendor
  • Configuration layout and performance tuning of backup infrastructure
  • Provide analysis of Environment and Best Practice knowledge transfer
  • Perform necessary backup infrastructure maintenance in accordance with customers change management policies.
  • Ensure that the backup technologies are updated with current stable and compliant architecture that meets enterprise standards
  • Participate in Root Cause Analysis reviews when applicable
  • Active participation in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises when required
  • Perform on-call activities as needed for the environment and technologies

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree preferred in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years in a Backup Infrastructure hardware and software environments
  • Experience with EMC Storage products
  • and Windows server operating system skills including the ability to write and troubleshoot shell scripts
  • Knowledge of job associated database / software / documentation backups
  • Should be able to deploy Backup environment from scratch participate in DR activities
  • Knowledge of Application aware backups (SQL Oracle Exchange etc.)
  • Knowledge of Avamar Data Domain CyberRecovery and CyberVault.
  • Familiarity with VMware and other virtualization technologies.
  • Problem solver with troubleshooting decision making and analytical skills
  • Able to work and interact with others in a structured / team environment
  • Flexibility and adaptability to handle competing work demands
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work flexible hours and be on-call
  • ServiceNow functionality and usability
Position: Backup Administrator with Avamar Location: -Plano TX (5 Days onsite & 24x7 Rotational) Shift: Rotational Shift Full time Position Duties and Responsibilities: Support a variety of backup configurations and platforms Perform routine systems maintenance upgrades capacity planning...
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Key Skills

  • Hadoop
  • Microsoft Windows Server
  • Windows
  • Apache
  • Linux
  • SAN
  • Shell Scripting
  • System Administration
  • Administrative Experience
  • Scripting
  • Oracle
  • Troubleshooting