Description

– Backup Administrator / Consultant (EMC Data Protector and Dell EMC NetWorker)

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Backup Administrator/Consultant responsible for implementing, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise backup and recovery environments. The role requires robust hands-on expertise in OpenText Data Protector (formerly Micro Focus/HPE Data Protector) and Dell EMC NetWorker, including backup infrastructure, media management, storage integration, recovery operations, and support for business-critical systems.

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Key Responsibilities

EMC Data Protector Administration

- Install, configure, administer, and upgrade Data Protector Cell Managers, Installation Servers, clients, and agents.
- Create and manage backup specifications, schedules, protection policies, media pools, devices, and retention settings.
- Configure filesystem, database, virtual machine, and application-aware backups.
- Monitor backup sessions, analyze failures, perform remediation, and ensure successful completion within defined backup windows.
- Perform file-level, database, application, and disaster-recovery restores.
- Maintain the Internal Database (IDB), including backup, health checks, maintenance, recovery, and capacity management.

Dell EMC NetWorker Administration

- Install, configure, administer, patch, and upgrade NetWorker servers, storage nodes, clients, and management components.
- Configure and manage protection groups, policies, workflows, actions, schedules, pools, devices, and retention requirements.
- Administer NetWorker Management Console and monitor backup, clone, recovery, and maintenance operations.
- Configure client resources and application modules for databases, enterprise applications, and virtual platforms.
- Manage media databases, client file indexes, bootstrap backups, and disaster-recovery readiness.
- Troubleshoot failed or slow backup and recovery jobs across server, client, storage, and network layers.

Backup Infrastructure & Storage Integration

- Configure and support disk-based backup, deduplication appliances, virtual tape libraries, physical tape libraries, drives, robotics, and media servers/storage nodes.
- Integrate backup platforms with Data Domain or equivalent target storage using supported protocols and optimized data paths.
- Manage device allocation, media lifecycle, cloning, replication, vaulting, and offsite media processes.
- Monitor capacity, throughput, deduplication efficiency, and storage utilization, and recommend optimization actions.
- Coordinate hardware maintenance, firmware alignment,



connectivity validation, and vendor support activities.

Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery

- Plan, execute, and validate backups and restores for Windows, Linux/UNIX, databases, enterprise applications, and virtual environments.
- Perform recovery testing and provide evidence that recovery point and recovery time objectives can be achieved.
- Maintain backup catalog, bootstrap, configuration, and media information required for platform disaster recovery.
- Support data retention, legal hold, archival, and secure media handling requirements.
- Develop and periodically test backup-platform disaster-recovery procedures and runbooks.

Monitoring, Reporting & Optimization

- Monitor daily backup success, missed jobs, failed sessions, capacity trends, SLA compliance, and recurring issues.
- Produce operational dashboards, compliance reports, exception reports, and trend analysis for stakeholders.
- Tune concurrency, streams, schedules, device usage, and data paths to improve backup performance and reliability.
- Identify backup gaps, obsolete clients, policy deviations, and capacity risks, and drive corrective actions.
- Support audits by providing configuration, retention, restore-test, and operational evidence.

Operations & Support

- Handle incidents, service requests, changes, problems, and major-event support in accordance with ITIL processes.
- Perform root cause analysis for recurring failures and implement permanent corrective and preventive actions.
- Prepare and maintain architecture documents, SOPs, recovery runbooks, operational checklists, and implementation plans.
- Participate in maintenance activities, patching, upgrades, migrations, on-call rotation, and after-hours support when required.
- Collaborate with operating system, database, virtualization, storage, network, security, application, and vendor teams.

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Required Skills

- Strong administration and troubleshooting experience with OpenText Data Protector and Dell EMC NetWorker.
- Data Protector Cell Manager, Installation Server, Disk Agent, Media Agent, application integrations, devices, media pools, and IDB management.
- NetWorker server, storage node, client, policies, workflows, pools, devices, indexes, media database,



and bootstrap recovery.
- Backup and restore support for Windows, Linux/UNIX, VMware or equivalent virtualization platforms, databases, and enterprise applications.
- Integration with Dell EMC Data Domain or equivalent deduplication and backup storage platforms.
- Tape library, virtual tape library, cloning, replication, retention, vaulting, and media lifecycle management.
- Backup performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, reporting, and SLA management.
- Shell or PowerShell scripting and automation of routine backup administration tasks.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, storage connectivity, filesystems, databases, and operating-system fundamentals.
- Incident, change, problem, documentation, audit, and disaster-recovery processes.

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Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Relevant administration or implementation certification for OpenText Data Protector.
- Dell EMC Proven Professional or equivalent NetWorker certification.
- ITIL Foundation certification is preferred.
- Experience supporting large enterprise, multi-site, or managed-services backup environments.
- Experience with backup-platform upgrades, migrations, consolidation, automation, and disaster-recovery exercises.

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Key Competencies

- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.
- Ability to manage critical restores and backup incidents with urgency and accuracy.
- Excellent documentation, stakeholder communication, and cross-team coordination abilities.
- Strong ownership of backup compliance, recoverability, and service improvements.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight operational deadlines.

EMC Networker/ Data protection tool

Enable Skills-Based Hiring No ECMS REQ IDAdditional Details

- ECMS REQ ID : 580309
- Project Location 1 : TN | CHENNAI
- Project Location 2 : (No Value)
- Project Location 3 : (No Value)
- Project Location 4 : (No Value)
- Delivery SPOC : Atin_Roy
- Relevant Experience : 10-15 Years
- Mandatory skills : EMC Networker/ Data protection tool
- Desired skills : EMC Networker/ Data protection tool
- Domain (Industry) : Telecom
- BGC (Before onboarding / After onboarding) : PreOB
- Total Experience (Ex. 5-7 Years) : 12-18 years
- BGC Details : NA
- BGC Vendor : NA
- Mode of Interview : Face to Face
- WFO / WFH / Hybrid : Hybrid
- Please enter shift timings : 8AM-5PM CET (11.30 AM-8.30 PM IST)
- Shift Timings : Others

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