Data Protection Engineer (Dell EMC / Backup)

***Important Notes***

Resource must be local to New York City and committed to going onsite 5 days a week.

The start date is dependent on the resource completing the Dell background as well as a customer background which includes fingerprints before they can start. The resource MUST be onsite for the duration of the assignment there is no exception for this assignment.

Extension - this residency has been renewed yearly for the last 4 years and at this time there is no reason to believe this residency will not be extended for another year (July 2026 to June 2027) as well for the right candidate.

Description:

Must have skills: PPDM, Avamar 19.8 & later, Data Domain 7.7 & later. DPA 19.4 & later

Nice to have skills: Knowledge of any of the following: Isilon, CloudIQ, Vcenter, NDMP ServiceNow, Office 365, Networking, FTP, and engaging support. Good to have scripting and familiar with UNIX & PowerShell commands.

Project Tasks:

Daily Operations/Implementation

• Check and confirm all systems maintenance are running fine and take necessary action to resolve if any on all ten Avamar servers (Two physical servers & eight virtual servers) and eleven Data Domains (Two DD 9800 model & Nine DD9900 model)

• Monitor Daily backup failures (VM Snapshot, NAS, DB2, Oracle, file system backups)

• Restore request as needed by customer.

• Create DPA reports for customer.

• Please check LPR backups complete on both MDC/PSAC2

• Computer Crimes NAS backup, check current year is completing and you may have to manually manage backups for older years.

• Work with support for any hardware issues such as disk or memory failures and work with CE’s

• Knowledgeable with Elastic Cloud to support in case of any troubleshooting issues such as updating certificates, Disk replacements and reporting with support.

• Perform upgrades to Data Domain

• Monitor CloudIQ for DPS and resolve open issues.

• Perform upgrades to Avamar & DPA

• Attend meetings with Customer to go over any issues related to backup.

• Attend CAB (ServiceNow) meetings.

• In addition to the day to day operations outlined above, the resource will be responsible for multiple active projects at any given time based on direction from the customer. Current projects the resource will be work on are:

• Data protection capacity expansion project – Managing and rebalance Data Domain data across all the arrays in the CC cluster. Responsibilities include design, deployment, and data migration

• Avamar virtualization project – design and implementation of Avamar virtualization and reduce the hardware, power, and maintenance cost across all data centers. As of date there are eight virtualized Avamar across multiple DC and two physical Avamar servers at 1PP, MDC and PSAC2. There is one virtual Avamar ready to be deployed at PSac2 DC and is waiting for DD. And there is one Data Domain DD9900 to be built at 1PP and a virtual Avamar to be deployed

• DPS MDC refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center. Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from MDC to 1PP, and load balance the data to MDC PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD.

• DPS PSAC2 refresh project – Design implements the latest data domains (DD9900s) at 1PP DC data center. Migrate data off the Avamar LPR/PS01 DD9800/9900 from PSAC2 to 1PP, and load balance the data to PSAC2 PS01/PS02/PS03 core DD.

• Recalling Data off PAQ ECS to PSAC2 Data Domain and migrating data to balance across Core DD (Almost done, less than 10% to be recalled and then migrated)

• Works with customer server team, network team, application teams, and security team (example request via ServiceNow – for Avamar VM build, Firewall, plug plan (Ports), VLAN, cabling, backup requirements such as scheduling/retention, etc