we require candidates with Primary (Netapp (EMC - Unity, DEll Compellent & Equal logic, SAN Switches, Brocades, CISCO) Secondary : Veritas NetBackup or NBU & Appliance.

Role : Storage & Backup SME & Team Manager

Experience : 14 to 20 years strong expertise in Netapp Storage is both primary and secondary skills

Shift : 16 / 5 Rotational shift

Responsibilities -

Experience in SAN, NAS, with Netapp and DELL and EMC storages and Veritas Net Backup, Appliance backup tool.

- Perform run-the-business SAN administrative duties, including upgrades, standard allocations, port allocations/zoning, break-fix, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Resource knowledge on Backup Management
- Participate in large scale component upgrades, datacenter migrations, and similar enterprise initiatives.
- Develop, communicate, and monitor the operational standards and procedures for backups. Perform all routine administrative and operational tasks
- Manage current storage environment.
- Incorporates disk, tape, SAN, ISCSI and storage software.
- Resolve storage short falls.
- Alert and resolve performance issues and advise end users.
- High availability of data to all applications.
- Data Migrations & Replication.
- Work with application developers to determine storage requirements.
- Work with existing programmers, System Administrators and DBAs to optimize storage.
- Maintain proper backup schedules. Restore and recover data as requested. Facilitate off-site storage of tape.
- Disk usage, Performance, Storage availability, reporting on status, forecast pipeline of storage growth.
- Determine allocation of different storage and service tiers.
- Responsible for planning and execution of the storage installation.




- Perform any host-level tasks need to access new storage.
- Extensive experience deploying mission critical servers in a 247 production setting.
- Mentor and create documentation/knowledge base articles for routine tasks and troubleshoot on the infrastructure under support.

Backup Skills

- Lead daily operations and administration of Veritas NetBackup, including Flex Appliances, traditional NetBackup Appliances, and legacy deployments.
- Manage backup policies, schedules, and retention configurations across heterogeneous workloads and platforms.
- Oversee backup storage targets tape libraries, disk storage, and Flex storage – ensuring optimal performance and utilization.
- Plan and execute NetBackup upgrades, patching, and migrations from legacy to modern appliance-based environments.
- Troubleshoot backup/restore failures, media issues, and catalog inconsistencies, ensuring SLA compliance.
- Coordinate disaster recovery simulations and validate end-to-end restore capabilities for critical systems.
- Monitor and tune backup performance, deduplication efficiency, and storage consumption.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, and application teams to align protection policies with business requirements.
- Implement and maintain encryption, access control, and data protection compliance across all backup components.
- Manage vendor engagement for Veritas and hardware support, including firmware upgrades and case resolutions.
- Maintain operational documentation, topology maps, and SOPs for all backup infrastructure components.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to backup administrators and ensure consistent operational practices across environments.
- Administration of backup data replication topology.

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