SENIOR BACKUP ADMINISTRATOR

Technical Requirements –

· Cohesity NetBackup

o Master Server

o Media server

o Dell Data Domain

· NBU Media Appliance

· Tape Library

o TS4300

· Azure Recovery services vaults

o Azure Portal

· SAN Switches.

o IBM 48 Port Switch

o IBM 24 Port Switch.

Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:

· Having sound knowledge and experience in Cohesity NetBackup 11.X.X Master and media server, Data Domain, Azure Recovery services vaults, SAN Switches configuration& administration.

· Provide exceptional backup services, prioritizing simplicity and enhancing customer experience.

· Remediate vulnerabilities by leading automated patching, OS hardening, and firmware upgrades across all Cohesity clusters, NetBackup appliances, and isolated vault architectures.

· Administer backup environments in a mixed environment of Unix, Linux and Windows servers.

· Build and deploy backup infrastructure, including managing backup repositories.

· Exceptional troubleshooting skills for backup, tape, DD, SAN SW and storage issues.

· Proficiently manage critical issues within the backup infrastructure, liaising across multiple technical towers as appropriate.

· Working dependently and actively coach and develop peers, as well as participate in on-call rotations as required.

· Possess in-depth knowledge of multiple backup products, both through command line and GUI interfaces.

· Drive appropriate engagement and response from key vendors to ensure service levels for this environment.

· Adhere to established company processes, including change management, incident management, and problem management.

· Experience in managing critical backup infrastructure at scale

· Act as the final internal tier for troubleshooting catastrophic backup failures, performance bottlenecks, and recovery blockages.

· Conduct exhaustive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for repeated failures and critical Sev-1 production outages.

· Maintaining a rolling enterprise backup success tier ≥ 99%

· Manage direct developer-level ticketing escalations alongside NetBackup and Cohesity vendor support engineering teams.

· Client engagement Ability to develop operational reports.

· Architect, stand up, and manage Cohesity Clusters and NetBackup Master/Media Servers across physical, virtual, and cloud targets.

· Lead migration initiatives moving enterprise data blocks from legacy tape/appliance targets over to modernized Cohesity SpanFS clusters.

· Drive end-to-end version lifecycle changes including planning configurations, patching routines, and massive platform upgrades

· Build, audit, and sustain target policies protecting VMware vSphere, Nutanix, Microsoft SQL, Oracle DBs, and massive NAS shares.

· Establish policy governance models leveraging NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) alongside Cohesity Data Protect routines.

· Provision hybrid infrastructure bindings natively targeting AWS, Azure instances.

· Plan and direct mandatory enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR)drills, documenting proof of failover/failback readiness.