What are the responsibilities and job description for the Storage Backup Administrator(Cohesity) position at Skysoft Inc.?
Job Title:: Cohesity Backup Engineer
Location : Washington, DC ( Hybrid/Onsite as required)
Duration: Long Term
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Cohesity Backup Engineer to support our client in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect, data backup/restore operations, and enterprise storage environments. This role involves architecting, implementing, and maintaining backup solutions to ensure data availability, integrity, and recoverability for mission-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage Cohesity backup and recovery solutions across enterprise environments.
- Perform daily backup operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring successful job completion.
- Configure, optimize, and maintain backup policies, schedules, retention rules, and SLAs.
- Lead data recovery efforts, including restore requests, disaster recovery support, and failover testing.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, security, and application teams to ensure backup compliance.
- Analyze backup performance issues and implement tuning or configuration adjustments.
- Maintain documentation for backup architecture, processes, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support migration activities, upgrades, and integration with other storage or cloud platforms.
- Ensure adherence to PBGC security and compliance standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 8 years of experience in backup engineering or enterprise storage administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect (implementation, configuration, administration).
- Experience with one or more backup platforms (e.g., Commvault, Rubrik, NetBackup) is a plus.
- Solid understanding of VMware, Windows/Linux servers, and enterprise storage systems.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure) backup integration.
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization skills.
- Experience with scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) is a plus.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC as required by PBGC.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cohesity certification (e.g., CCAP) is highly desirable.
- Experience supporting federal clients or secure enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of ITIL processes and change management.
Salary : $130,000 - $135,000