Storage & Backup EMC

Storage & Backup EMC

Job Location: Kohler, WI Job Type: Contract to hire

Responsibilities:

• Support for EMC Storage devices
• Assign and initialize Storage volumes
• Provision, configure and monitor thin provision volumes, where appropriate
• Determine file and volume placement
• Configure and manage RAID parameters
• Configure and manage controller optimization (e.g., load balance pair failover)
• For SAP HANA deployments, configure and manage General Parallel File System (GPFS)
• Configure de-duplication and compression where applicable
• Utilize advanced hypervisor integration (e.g. VAAI, VVOL, Storage DRS)
• Configure and manage data snapshot and replication procedures and tools
• Optimize and automate deployment of new Storage capabilities (e.g., scripting)
• Perform rebuilds on crashed volumes and initializing new volumes
• Continually perform performance tuning of Storage Subsystems in relation to usage patterns by applications and demonstrate obtained efficiencies in storage utilization annually
• Adhere to and enforce customer disk quota practices
• Implement Storage Management and optimization processes to maintain Ralph Lauren directed headroom on all Storage Subsystems and add capacity as required
• Support Storage encryption activities, as directed by Ralph Lauren
• Perform catalog management and data migrations as required
• Reclaim and wipe Storage volumes
• Keep firmware, microcode, OS software updated and current
• Perform data replication testing

Skills:

• Support for Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, EMC Networker and Avamar software
• Manage redundancy across all backup and Recovery infrastructure
• Implement de-duplication when applicable or otherwise directed by Client
• Support encryption, as required by Client
• Install and configure add-on tools that enable specialized backups where required, block-level incremental backups, image bare metal, etc.
• Install and configure disk array-based mirror and split technologies where appropriate and as determined by Client business requirements
• Install and configure disk array, data protection appliance and/or disk volume management software-based replication technologies as appropriate and as determined by Client business requirements
• Install and configure virtual tape libraries and disk-based backups were appropriate based on Client requirements
• Perform regular system backups in accordance with Client backup schedule
• Perform regular tests of backup and restore processes as defined by Client Backup and Recovery procedures and deliver documented results to Client
• In addition to incremental and full backups, perform backups prior to and after Major Level Upgrade Changes and after significant Application Software batch processing periods as requested by Client and
• Manage backup data so as to enable the recovery from an Outage or data corruption in compliance with service metrics
• Ensure recovery action is approved by Client Security Leadership
• Identify the most recent fully recoverable backup and all incremental backups executing on the impacted drive(s)
• If required, retrieve the backup media from offsite Storage
• Communicate to Client a plan and timeline for completing the restore, including interfacing and co-planning with Client application teams, if required
• Execute the recovery by loading the latest fully recoverable backup and then restoring the incremental backups to the impacted drive(s)
• Where implemented, execute a restore to a replicated backup Operating System instance and associated systems Storage
• Test and validate the Normal Operations of the drive(s)
• Return the drive(s) to production

About us: Founded in 2007, InterSources Inc is a Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) & Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Certified Company specializing in providing IT Consulting, IT Staffing Solutions, and Software solutions. We have been recipients of Various Awards under "Fastest Growing IT Consulting and Software Company" and "Excellence in Technology Services"