Back-up Recovery / SAN Engineer – SC/DV

Contract duration : 3 Months

Location : Erskine

Pay rate : £46.40ph

Position : Back-up Recovery / SAN Engineer – SC/DV

Job title – Back-up & Recovery / SAN engineer

Job location –Erskine UK

Clearance required – UK National with SC min

DV (MoD) preferred. Must be able to hold and maintain DV clearance

Job Description

• Evaluate customer needs based on applications requirements, current capacity and growth trends
• Deliver engineering specifications, assist with functional specifications, and collaborate on technical designs and specifications for projects and initiatives.
• Estimate effort, both development and product delivery timelines, to determine a course of action for project.
• Provide technical input for specific storage and backup needs or objectives in order to meet business requirements.
• Work closely with external vendors and other personnel in order to optimize and facilitate the best solution to meet the needs of the business.
• Provide technical services for customers in a highly complex storage and backup environments. Demonstrate ability to assess technical impact to the project/new technology along with technical risks.
• Resolve complex problems with little or no guidance. Independently research and promote specialized technical solutions.
• Analyse complex hardware and software issues associated with backup and storage related technologies specifically HP Data Protector and SAN (HP 3par).
• Analyse, design, test, document, and implement solutions for continuous data availability, integrity, backup and protection.
• Define and specify architecture protocols and functional requirements and specifications for storage and backup components.
• Strong background in enterprise data protection, management and protection solutions. Must be able to design and implement new data protection solutions, manage change, and add backup policies in a large-scale, mission-critical, multi-PB storage environment. Must have wide-ranging experience and the ability to apply that experience along with professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in effective ways.
• Demonstrate domain knowledge in storage, data management and data protection technologies and be able apply the knowledge of these methodologies to the storage, protection, retention, reclamation, and disaster recovery.
• Manage, configure and maintain multi-PB multi-tiered environment.
• Report on performance and capacities and make allocation recommendations based on trending. Ensure the environments remain compliant with vendor recommended patching standards.
• Participate in capacity planning and performance discussions and assist in development and execution of disaster recovery exercises.
• Knowledge of HP Data Protector and other back-up technologies
• Knowledge of SAN (HP 3par) and other SAN technologies
• Experience with Enterprise data protection and disaster recover solution, and understand Enterprise application data management requirements
• Excellent planning, interpersonal, problem solving, leadership skills are required.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation are necessary. Active listening skills are required.
• Excellent ability to proactively identify and resolve issues and opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and in environments dealing with ambiguity.
• 5+ years of Backup and Storage Engineering experience.