Backup & Storage Technical Administrator/Luxembourg/320 Euros pd

Excellent long term contract opportunity for a motivated junior technical administrator to work in a dynamic team to maintain the overall backup infrastructure.

This is an operational role, on-call and shift work will be required.

Experience required:

• 2 to 3 years of experience in Backup & Storage domain within a large environment.
• University degree or equivalent level through experience and professional training.
• The ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, capable of self-study.
• In addition to your strong communication skills, you are structured, process minded and able to maintain the high-level overview.
• You are fluent in English (at least B2 Level). French is considered as an asset.
• You can work independently and can manage your time.
• You are eager to work in a dynamic multi-national environment with a strong customer focus.
• You are willing to travel to attend industry events and customer meetings.

Required skills:

Good knowledge in some of the following tools:

• Backup: Commvault and its associated management tools
• SAN: Brocade and storage Hitachi and its associated management tools

NAS:

• NetApp ONTAP storage arrays (AFFxxxx) and StorageGrid (SG6xxx) and its associated management tools.
• DELL EMC Isilon/PowerScale and its associated management tools
• Familiar with Disaster Recovery

Desirable skills

• Knowledge of Perl or Python or Ansible scripts
• Knowledge of Object storage (S3 protocol)
• Knowledge of Superna Eyeglass DR

The backup and storage team will perform the following activities:

The activities related to managing the hardware are:

• Analysis and propose configuration to deploy
• Architecture and Reference Configuration definition
• CMDB maintenance
• Decommissioning: data migration in coordination with other teams, logical disk shredding, and configuration cleaning

Duties linked to the provisioning and maintenance of the services:

• Set-up and maintain Storage devices' definitions and policies
• Set-up and maintain backup tool and corresponding application modules, definitions, and policies.
• Storage Area Network related: zoning and port configurations.
• Drive and enforce standards-based deployments.
• Oversee installation, provisioning, troubleshooting, and reporting.
• Perform periodic analysis of vulnerabilities available with the corresponding risk and impact assessment, in conjunction with the providers, to ensure a stable and safe setup.
• Reporting based on templates is part of the analysis.
• In coordination with the providers, install updates and patches to hardware and software. Perform routine and preventive maintenance tasks.
• Capacity and Performance planning of each component of the infrastructure.

Daily, the activities performed are:

• Monitoring of the Backup and Storage infrastructures
• Incident follow-up and resolution (SMT)
• After major system events, a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) must be presented, including the preventive measures to take to limit possible reoccurrences
• Service requests follow-up and resolution (SMT)
• Generate reports on the overall status of the services' infrastructure
• Cooperate with customers and provider through ticketing and emails systems to solve inter-team or inter-providers problems

Please get in touch for further details.