***This role starts as a 1 year contract with the potential to extend or convert FTE after***
***This is an onsite role**
Required Skills & Experience
Five years experience managing, designing, and/or implementing disaster recovery and business continuity procedures required.
Experience with both physical and virtual tape/disk drives, library backup, and restore technologies; ability to work well and communicate with others in an effective manner, both written and oral; ability to analyze and solve problems; ability to translate technical needs and problems into creative solutions; strong communication and customer service skills with the ability to work well with peers and customers; ability to analyze existing processes and identify areas for improvement.
High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
What You Will Be Doing
Daily ResponsibilitiesConduct performance tuning for enterprise backup solutions.
Manage the daily backup tasks for distributed systems, including monitoring all platforms for missed/failed backups.
Manage capacity and availability of tape, disc, and other storage media for backups.
Investigate hardware/software errors related to backups and coordinate the repair process.
Open and track the status of issues opened via internal and external incident reports as necessary.
Analyze historical trend data to assist in forecasting the need for configuration changes/upgrades.
Audit all aspects of data backups to ensure the integrity of the backup environment.
Evaluate overall backup system performance and report metrics to leadership.
Assist in specifying and meeting system disaster recovery requirements.
Assist in designing system processes and procedures for backup of enterprise systems.
Utilize specialized backup software to develop and maintain an enterprise backup system effectively utilizing the features integrated into the software/hardware.
Manage the scheduling and monitoring of all backup jobs.
Document all job schedules and prepare drafts for submission to the department technical writer for publication.
Ensure the integrity of backups by managing a schedule of rotating restores of all backup jobs.