Data Protection Specialist

Role & responsibilities

• Installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of backup applications on servers and endpoints.
• data protection expert responsible for implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise backup infrastructure.
• Define and enforce backup policies, retention schedules, and storage policies to meet RPO/RTO targets.
• Perform capacity planning; Analyze storage consumption and performance.
• Take initiative to find root causes to proactively prevent recurrence of issues.
• Consistent regular interaction with internal & vendor team and updates to Incident tickets.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation.
• Support sales team in solution sizing, poc, & BOQ.

Preferred candidate profile

• Strong hands-on expertise & experience in deploying & managing either of the leading backup softwares; Veeam, Commvault, Veritas / Cohesity, IBM Storage Protect / TSM / Spectrum Protect.
• Deep expertise in implementing enterprise backup and API agent integration for applications and databases such as SQL, Oracle, VMware, SAP, NAS, cloud backups, and disaster recovery.
• L1 & L2 level competency to diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Expertise in configuring various storage devices including Libraries, tape driver, autoloader, VTL.
• Experience in implementing immutable / WORM compliant storage backup repositories with locks (Object Lock) on disk and cloud libraries to prevent deletion is preferable and shall have added advantage.
• Experience in implementing Air-Gap Backup Architecture (logical or physical) using for ransomware isolation is preferable and shall have added advantage.
• Expertise in configuring endpoint backup solution such as Veritas DLO is highly preferable.
• Knowledge on Unix, Linux, Shell Scripting, Windows, Network, VMware and Cloud.
• Expertise in performing data restorations for various types of data sets in accordance to policy