About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Storage and Backup Engineer to join NATO-NCIA, at Mons, Belgium

Responsibilities

Under guidance of Service Delivery Manager, Storage and Backup Service (Infrastructure Services), but largely on own initiative, will perform duties such as following:

• Full lifecycle of backup storage hardware and software: architecture, design, administration, support including storage utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting data storage requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance
• Perform daily backup administrator activities including, backup checks, backup of new servers/services, troubleshooting, and debugging
• Support storage administrators to perform activities including monitoring, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting, and debugging
• Deploy and implement storage-base replication and Disaster Recovery (Cyber Vault considered as ‘Plus’ ) solutions
• Modifications and changes to the Backup Storage and SAN infrastructure/design/configuration by following proper Change Management processes
• Participate/perform in root cause analysis for significant problems and suggests clear recommendations for improvements
• Schedule, coordinate and lead planned downtimes
• Accurately update comments and status to tickets via ticketing system
• Participate in on-call activities
• May require to work on shift, scheduled maintenances, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of regular business hours

Profile

• Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
• Master Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and six (3) years experience
• or Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and eight (4) years experience
• or Dell-EMC Data Storage and/or Dell-EMC Backup Certification and ten (5)years experience or no degree/certification and twelve (6) years of total Data Storage experience
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of disk-based backup and archive storages and backup software more specifically on Avamar and DataDomain or PowerProtect
• Hands-on experience of SAN and NAS storages
• Hands-on experience on SAN/NAS Network fundamentals (TCP-IP, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, WWNP)
• Hands-on experience with VMware virtual environments
• Able to document current design & configuration and to develop/maintain Standard Operation Procedures/Instructions and training guidance
• Hands-on experience on ITIL Service Operation
• ITIL Foundation certification
• Fluent English in both spoken and written
• DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:
• Detailed knowledge of MARCOM infrastructure design and service operations
• Dell-EMC All Flash (FAS, File/Block) data storage knowledge and experience including one of following: Powermax, VMAX, Unity and XtremeIO
• Certification in one or more of following Dell-EMC certifications: DCS-IE or DCS-SA or DCE-IE on Data Domain or Avamar
• Certification in one or more of following Dell-EMC certifications: DCS-IE (DellEMC Unity, XtremIO), DCS-TA (XtremIO)
• Hands-on experience on data replication technologies and data protection (Replication: Native Synchronous Block Replication and/or Native Asynchronous Block and/or File Replication and/or RecoverPoint; Data Protection: Air GapProtection with Cyber Vault)
• Hands-on experience on fabric switches (Brocade and/or Cisco), Fibre Channel (FC) networking
• Scripting (Python, Power-Shell, etc.) for Storage Automation or collect data/event from storages
• BMC/ITSM Ticketing system
• ITIL Service Operation certification

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

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