Job Title: Backup, DR & Migration Consultant
Experience: 5+ years
Location:Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Type: Contract/Freelance

Role purpose

Assess and design a resilient, vendor-neutral backup, catalogue and DR capability independent of the incumbent Dell Networker/Data Domain, and define the migration and transition approach for a safe, phased move of a multi-petabyte estate within the fixed vendor-support deadline and the client's data-centre space constraints.

Requirements
Key responsibilities
Assess current backup/recovery and DR – Networker configuration and catalogues, Data Domain capacity/dedupe and retention, success/failure rates, replication topology and RTO/RPO.
Design a vendor-neutral target backup & DR capability independent of Data Domain/Networker, incorporating immutable/air-gapped copies and ransomware resilience.
Define RTO/RPO targets per workload with client owners; design the DR replication and test approach.
Develop the migration & transition strategy – phased, wave-based, respecting data-centre space,



power and cooling constraints; sequencing by criticality; non-disruptive cutover; pilot validation; rollback; and legacy decommissioning once each wave is verified.
Contribute backup, DR and migration requirements and risks to the registers; facilitate workshops with the backup/DR owner, infrastructure and service owners.
Contribute to the costed design-phase estimate and roadmap for the Discovery gate.
Deliverables owned
Current-state assessment for WS3 and WS5.
Backup/DR and migration content of the Requirements Register and Risk Register.
Target backup & DR design and the migration strategy & roadmap – design phase.
Input to the Discovery Report and the design-phase estimate & plan.
Essential skills & experience
Extensive enterprise backup, recovery and DR design experience at scale.
Hands-on with Dell Networker and Data Domain / PowerProtect (or directly comparable), plus up-to-date alternatives (e.g. Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault) – as

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