Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company. Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include: • Application Development • Project Management • Quality Assurance • Business/Systems Analysis • Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence • Infrastructure & Network Services • Risk Management & Compliance • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery • Security & Privacy Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation) • Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation) • ICAP (Contractor Payroll) • Flextrack (Vendor Management System) Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer for a contract opportunity in Plano, TX. Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Job Details Seeking a detail oriented, highly organized, goal oriented/driven individual with excellent communication skills to deliver Data Protection, Backup and Recovery services. Candidate will work closely with Program/Project Management, IT Managers, SME’s and project teams to deliver solutions. Roles & Responsibilities  - Provide day to day global operational activities for Storage and Backup/Recovery teams including administering storage array architecture, SAN infrastructure, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Backup/Restore, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and Archival and Retrieval  - Produce regular reports to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and consolidation  - Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis of backup and recovery infrastructure.  - Assist in Data Center consolidation efforts  - Analyze Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels. Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison  - Perform H/W monitoring and maintenance  - Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Storage and Backup/Recovery related issues  - Create and Manage Dataset, Schedule and Retention Policy. Monitoring AVAMAR backups and recovering failed backups  - Configuring/Managing VMware backups  - Ensure backup of critical system/application infrastructure via Avamar  Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Mandatory Skills - Experience in AVAMAR Backup Tool.  - Strong Knowledge of EMC Avamar concepts  - AVAMAR server/Client and Administrator console installation.  - Experience in Avamar grid configuration in large scale data center deployments  - Multi-site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar)  - Creating and modifying backup policies and configuring new and existing backup clients  - Support of backup clients for multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and applications (SQL, Oracle, mysql)  - AVAMAR system migration concepts  - Comfortable using GUI and CLI  - In depth troubleshooting and support on Avamar Servers, Storage Nodes, NDMP Accelerators  - Data Domain experience with following  o Integration experience with Avamar and Data Domain  o Experience supporting DDBOOST plug-in (SQL, Oracle)  o Multi-site replication (collection, mtree, directory)  o Comfortable using GUI and CLI  o Extended Retention  - Experience in Storage platforms:  o EMC VMAX (Block), VNX(NAS /BLOCK), CLARION (BLOCK)  o NETAPP - FAS Series NAS / SAN - CDOT or 7 MODE Experience  o SAN SWITCHES Like Brocade or Cisco  o Any other Storage like HP, Pure, Hitachi, HP, Tintri or Oracle ZFS will be a plus  - 2 + Years of experience in Storage and Backup/Recover platform with multi-vendor storage solutions (EMC, NetApp)  - Should be a Team Player  - Good Communication Skills  - Able to tackle new challenges with little direction  - Experience with vSphere 5.0 is a Plus  - Basic Windows and/or Linux Admin skills  - Basic understanding of Network infrastructure i.e. routing, DNS, etc  - Ability to work under a process-centric ITIL Framework Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Start Date ASAP Storage & Backup/Recovery Engineer Assignment Length 6+ months All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.