Apptad Backup and Storage SMELead

Princeton, NJ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 20 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Backup and Storage SME/Lead

Location: Princeton NJ :: Onsite

Mode : Contract (6 Months) Onsite

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as a technical point of contact for customer-facing escalations and infrastructure planning.
Engage with application database virtualization and cloud teams to gather requirements and align infrastructure solutions.
Participate in customer meetings to understand pain points and translate them into technical improvements.
Provide clear proactive communication on issue status RCA and preventive recommendations.
Collaborate with vendors (Dell NetApp Veritas Rubrik Commvault) for Projects escalated support.
Act as an escalation point for complex storage and backup incidents.
Perform performance tuning capacity forecasting and root cause analysis.
Create and maintain documentation: architecture diagrams SOPs configuration guides.
Familiar with monitoring tools NetBackup OpsCenter Rubrik Reports CloudIQ OnCommand.
Follow ITIL processes for incident change and problem management.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple high-impact issues simultaneously

Skills Required:

Storage:

Configure provision and manage storage across Dell PowerStore Powermax and NetApp FAS/AFF/FSXn platforms.
Implement and manage LUNs volumes exports and replication (SanpMirror Snap Vault).
Perform advanced troubleshooting and RCA of storage issues (I/O latency disk failure zoning errors).
Manage Brocade SAN switches zoning port troubleshooting ISL setup firmware upgrades.
Plan and execute storage migrations firmware upgrades and DR rehearsals.
Manage NetApp features like FlexVol Flex Group SanpMirror CIFS/NFS share configurations.

Backup:

Administer Commvault Veritas NetBackup (Master/Media server policies catalog management MSDP AIR). Understanding of NBITA is add on.
Configure and manage Rubrik CDM SLA Domains cloud archival. Good understanding on Indexing and Replication for DR.
Troubleshoot failed backups/restores ensure compliance with RTO/RPO and DR tests.
Automate and optimize backup tasks using scripting (e.g. PowerShell Python).
Integrate backup systems with virtualization and cloud platforms (VMware AWS).
Perform regular health checks and backup success/failure reporting.

Operations & Support:

Experience in Storage and Backup:

8 years in NetBackup with Dell Data Domain administration (policy tuning restores cloud storage configuration).
2 years in Rubrik CDM VM/NAS backups SLA domains replication and archival.
Hands on work Experience in Commvault Backup Systems
5 years hands-on experience with Dell EMC PowerStore Powermax.
4 years with NetApp ONTAP SanpMirror and CIFS/NFS architecture.
Strong Brocade SAN fabric knowledge zoning monitoring CLI troubleshooting.

Job Title: Backup and Storage SME/Lead Location: Princeton NJ :: Onsite Mode : Contract (6 Months) Onsite Key Responsibilities: Serve as a technical point of contact for customer-facing escalations and infrastructure planning. Engage with application database virtualization and cloud teams to ...