Storage & Backup​/Recovery Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Data warehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties:

• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX.

Seeking a detail oriented, highly organized, goal oriented/driven individual with excellent communication skills to deliver Data Protection, Backup and Recovery services. Candidate will work closely with Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME’s and project teams to deliver solutions.

• Provide day to day global operational activities for Storage and Backup/Recovery teams including administering storage array architecture, SAN infrastructure, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Backup/Restore, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Archival and Retrieval.
• Produce regular reports to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and consolidation.
• Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure.
• Assist in Data Center consolidation efforts.
• Analyze problems & elevate to appropriate levels—hardware/software fault detection and vendor liaison.
• Perform H/W monitoring and maintenance.
• Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Storage and Backup/Recovery related issues.
• Create and manage dataset, schedule and retention policy; monitor Avamar backups and recover failed backups.
• Configure and manage VMware backups.
• Ensure backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar.

• Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool.
• Strong knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts.
• AVAMAR server/client and administrator console installation.
• Experience in Avamar grid configuration in large‑scale data center deployments.
• Multi‑site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar).
• Creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients.
• Support of backup clients for multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and applications (SQL, Oracle, MySQL).
• AVAMAR system migration concepts.
• Comfortable using GUI and CLI.
• In‑depth troubleshooting and support on Avamar servers, storage nodes, NDMP accelerators.
• Data Domain experience, including integration with Avamar and Data Domain; supporting DDBOOST plug‑in (SQL, Oracle); multi‑site replication (collection, mtree, directory); extended retention.
• Experience in storage platforms: EMC VMAX (Block), VNX (NAS/SAN), Clarion (Block);
  Net App FAS Series NAS/SAN (Cdot or 7‑Mode); SAN switches such as Brocade or Cisco; other storage systems (HP, Pure, Hitachi, Oracle ZFS) is a plus.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Storage and Backup/Recovery platforms with multi‑vendor solutions (EMC, Net App).
• Team player with good communication skills.
• Ability to tackle new challenges with little direction.
• Experience with vSphere 5.0 is a plus.
• Basic Windows and/or Linux administration skills.
• Basic understanding of network infrastructure (routing, DNS, etc.).
• Ability to work under a process‑centric ITIL framework.

ASAP

6+ months

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.