Backup and Recovery Admin

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

• Investigate Missed/Failed backups
• Monitor Miss/Fail of Backup Application scheduled Backups
• Perform Backup Server Health check
• Restart failed backups
• Restore/Recover Data
• Perform tape management activities
• Schedule backups via Backup Server
• Perform On-Demand Backup
• Configure/test /install BUR Software - Backup Client
• Add client/node
• Decommission/un-schedule client/node
• Verify Security posture
• Maintain Documentation; Restore Standards, Policies, Procedures
• Resolve Miss/Fail Backup - Server
• Resolve Miss/Fail Backup - Client
• Troubleshoot Tape drive/library
• Investigate/resolve transactional/archive log failures
• Perform BUR Library Maintenance/ Fix/Management
• Troubleshoot storage performance issues
• Troubleshoot storage capacity issues
• Initialize BUR Tape Media Volumes
• Configure/Test BUR Storage
• Configure/test /install BUR Software - Backup Server
• Create/Update Backup Application client Config files
• Decommission client/node
• Add advanced backup Infrastructure server (including client code)
• Decommission backup Infrastructure server
• Implement Security posture
• Perform library media audit
• Manage DR (Disaster Recovery) Steady State/Checks
• Participate in basic (primarily tape) DR (Disaster Recovery) Exercise (Test)
• Plan new releases of BUR (Backup and Restores) software
• Perform ID management
• Configure /maintain reports for Backup Application scheduled backups
• Create, Implement, and Manage Scripts
• Perform general administration activities in support of backups
• Sound knowledge on Storagepool containers, Node Replication and Protect Storage pools
• Good knowledge on Dataprotection for VMWare

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective backup procedures for systems and data
• Good knowledge with Linux and Windows server operating systems
• Good knowledge of VMware and other Hypervisor hosts and cluster architecture in order to verify backups and storage migrations plans.
• Familiarity with SAN and NAS
• Familiarity with cloud storage concepts
• Tivoli Data Protection Agent TDP (Virtual Environments, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Exchange and SQL)
• Good knowledge on maintenance of Physical & VTL Libraries

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in developing backup scripts for various backup activities
• Work experience on other backup software systems
• Experience in Unix environments
• Familiarity with ANSIBLE

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About Business UnitThis position currently sits within Global Technology Services (GTS) Infrastructure Services (IS) or a shared services function supporting GTS.
As announced in October 2020, IBM intends that its managed infrastructure services business of the GTS organization will become an independent company named Kyndryl by the end of 2021, creating two distinct and powerful market-leading companies.
Together, we will advance the vital systems that power the digital economy. Serving over 4,600 technology-intensive, highly regulated customers, including over 75% of the Fortune 100, our people will design, run, and manage the most modern and reliable technology infrastructure that the world depends on today.
We will work flexibly and in partnership with our customers to amplify business outcomes while always pushing ourselves to improve and meet all opportunities. Come join our team of diverse, devoted, and empathetic technology experts who are at the center of discovering what’s next.
Please note: The final decision if this position will transition from IBM to Kyndryl is yet to be confirmed.

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