The Backup Administrator will be responsible for the administration of our Backup platforms being part of a global team. The Backup Administrator supports and maintains various backup systems ensuring infrastructure health and data integrity 24/7. 

​Responsibilities:

• The main responsibilities of this position include, not limited to,:
• Regularly maintain and make sure backups and replications are running as needed
• Investigate Missed/Failed backups and other issues
• Create/Update Backup policies. 
• Monitor Miss/Fail of Backup Application scheduled Backups
• Understand costs for backups and Monitor costs associated with backups and restores
• Ensure enterprise scalability and performance for backup environments through proactive performance control and configuration adjustment;
• Implement security policies and procedures for storing and safeguarding data;
• Install, maintain and upgrade backup hardware and software;
• Maintain documentation of configuration, operation and troubleshooting procedures, and service records for backup hardware and software;
• Ensure troubleshooting in the event of errors and backup problems, and to resolve and analyze the root causes;
• Communicate with hardware and software representatives, as well as other internal teams, to diagnose and resolve errors with root causes;
• Participate in the assessment of new requirements, design and technical standards;
• Respond to user requests and incidents  and service requests
• Manage DR (Disaster Recovery) Steady State/Checks
• Supporting 24/7 on a global system - ability to support on calls
• Meet other related tasks.

Basic Requirements

• 3 years or more in the administration of data backup in an enterprise company 
• Strong experience in cloud backups
• Has experience with at least 2 backup softwares 
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows server operating systems
• Experience with cloud backups and concepts
• Familiarity with SAN and NAS
• Basic knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, Email and networking
• knowledge of DB backups (Oracle,SQL,etc…)
• Good knowledge in Virtualization (VMware and other Hypervisor hosts)
• Fluently spoken & written English
• Knowledge and understanding of data protection technologies, deduplication, data replication, encryption, and the interdependencies between backup clients and the backup environment, including the network, storage.
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