Senior Systems Engineer II (Backup)

E-Infosol LLC•Pocatello, ID

10h•Onsite

About The Position

E-INFOSOL is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backup Systems Engineer to support mission-critical infrastructure and systems for a federal customer. This is a full-time, on-site role located in either Pocatello, ID or Huntsville, AL. The ideal candidate shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base data backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.

Requirements

Minimum of six years’ experience with NetBackup and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite experience required.

Nice To Haves

Cohesity experience preferred.
A bachelor’s degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Window servers.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain the security of information throughout the backup infrastructure.
Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
Provide 3rd level support.
Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

Benefits

Medical –100% company paid for employees with dependent options
Dental and Vision
Retirement Savings (401k) up to 4% match
Health Savings Account (HSA), FSA and DCFSA
Company-paid Short/Long-term disability (w/ additional supplemental options)
Company-paid Life and AD&D (w/ additional supplemental options)
Generous Paid Time Off and ALL 11 Federal Holidays
Legal and Identity Protection Services
Bonuses for certifications and reimbursement
UberOne, Company Outings (Sporting events, Happy Hours, etc.), Discounts on services including Pet Insurance