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Sr Principal Backup Administrator

United States full-time Senior Salary not listed
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

What success looks like in this role:
Performs higher-level, advanced storage or backup duties as described below. Storage

Design and maintain Cyber Recovery vault architecture

• Manage air-gapped vault operations

Configure vault policies and replication schedules
• Validate cyber-recovery copies
• Conduct cyber recovery drills and tabletop exercises
• Troubleshoot Cyber Recovery jobs and vault synchronization
• Analyzes logs and monitors backup activity, identifying errors and anomalies, recommending corrective action as required.

• CyberSense installation and upgrades

DataDomain, Avamar, and PPDM experience.
• Works with management to understand backup utilization, lifecycle, protection requirements and develop these into effective and workable solutions and processes.
• Works with management to help develop backup policies and procedures, ensuring their communication to relevant stakeholders.
• Develops and implements automated solutions to support operational objectives.
• Provides recommendations to improve backup design and reduce cost.

Evaluates user needs or problems and takes appropriate action to resolve.
• Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes.
• Reviews system and application logs, verifies completion of scheduled jobs, including backups.
• Supports efforts to determine storage allocation, backup, and data restoration.
• Performs technical configuration changes.

• Facilitates offsite storage.

Supports efforts to evaluate new hardware and software management solutions.
• Monitors system performance and generates reports and analysis of storage resources. Backup
• Installs, upgrades and configures backup appliances.
• Performs backup environment performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Handles and responds to high priority tickets and instances.
• Installs and configures data protection software and associated components.
• Sets up data duplication disk pools and related backup devices.
• Ensures ongoing replication between locations.
• Performs a range of system recovery and data restores based on client and/or company request.
• Diagnoses platform issues, assisting with root cause analysis and change / risk assessment.
• Supports system / process improvement planning and implementation.

Provides support for storage system users – investigating, analyzing, and resolving basic SAN or network attached storage NAS issues.
• Configures and manages user, group, permission, and related system access protocol.

You will be successful in this role if you have:
BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience
This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Sr Principal Backup Administrator role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at name?
  3. Which of Operations, Principal and Backup have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Operations, Principal and Backup.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
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I am interested in the Sr Principal Backup Administrator role because I can bring practical experience in Operations, Principal and Backup, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes name needs from this hire.

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