ECLARO is a company that delivers talent. We provide fully customizable, comprehensive talent acquisition and management of seasoned professionals through a number of business models, including Consulting, Professional Hire, Global Integrated Delivery and Managed Services.
One of our clients is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer - Backup & Recovery, the client is located in Germantown MD, but the position is mostly remote with a need to travel once or twice a month in the office.
Job Summary
The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for participating in projects and daily activities that will create and develop new Disaster Recovery and Backup infrastructure architecture, critical organizational initiatives, and the implementation of core infrastructure systems. The Senior Systems Engineer must possess a comprehensive understanding of IT infrastructure combined with the ability to execute technical solutions that meet the needs of our customers as well as our organization. Additionally, the Senior Systems Engineer will act as an escalation point within the Engineering team and provide Subject Matter Expertise on one or many core BaaS and/or DRaaS technologies supporting our Service offerings.
Responsibilities & Essential Functions
- Focused on superior customer service with high energy, professionalism, and welcoming
- characteristics.
- Provides clear and accurate customer communication(s) in a timely fashion regarding the status
- of their issue or concern.
- Responsible for development & execution of processes and control systems to ensure the
- consistent delivery of highly secure & available backup & recovery platforms.
- Completes assigned installs and implementation projects in a timely fashion.
- Develops Infrastructure documentation to accurately reflect the as-built information of the
- solution design and includes details of our Backup & Recovery environments.
- Provides clear & accurate communications to the participating Sales or project manager
- regarding assigned tasks to meet implementation deadlines and objectives.
- Develop, validate, and maintain our Infrastructure documentation.
- Participate in team on-call rotation including all-hands on deck situations
- Active participation in customer pre-test planning meetings.
- Close coordination with other internal teams (Network, Mainframe, Power Systems, Hosting, Test
- Management, etc.) in preparation of events.
- Setup and teardown of infrastructures for customer Disaster Recovery exercises.
- Provide technical support during customer exercises.
- Ability to work pre-scheduled alternate shifts to accommodate customer testing.
- Guide customers with technical best practices, product how-to, product updates, and/or
- educating customers to maximize their product value.
- Strong ability to work in a highly sensitive and confidential environment including Federal
- agencies.
- Implement and manage Customer POCs to technical closure
- Work closely with the Sales & Product departments to secure new partners and customers
Qualifications / Requirements
Five or more years - Industry-based experience with data protection technologies and/or Disaster
Recovery software:
o Veeam Backup & Recovery, Commvault, Carbonite, Zerto, Avamar, etc.
Five or more years - Industry based experience in storage, network and/or cloud-based
technologies
Good understanding of virtualization technologies: VMware ESX(i), Microsoft Hyper-V
Deep understanding of the relationship between RTO and RPO and how to overlay the client's Technology & Services to accommodate our customer's requirements
Familiarity with access control models and network security
Basic understanding of IPv4 & IPv6, routing, switching, gateway, subnets
Familiar with Protocols such as NFS, CIFS as well Fibre Channel & iSCSI
Experience working with monitoring tools and SaaS applications
Experience in data life-cycle management with IT audit requirements
Require excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activities.
Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, including working on multiple projects
simultaneously.
Competent in leading discussions advising Sales on services, solutions & design
Ability to operate in a fast pace, team-oriented and collaborative environment with tight
deadlines.
Preferred Experience
Certifications within the Backup and/or Recovery technologies (eg: VMCE, VMCA, ZCP, VCP, etc)
Advanced use of engineering level tasks with Linux operating systems (eg: RedHat, CentOS,
Ubuntu, and SUSE)
Automation and scripting experience a Plus (eg Ansible, Powershell, Python)
Three or more years' experience working in a Managed Services Provider a Plus