Back Up & Restore Specialist

Back Up & Restore Specialist

6 months

Remote

Your Role

We are looking for recruits to join our 2nd Line Backup and Recovery support team. As part of a small team within a larger Operations organization, your role will be to deliver support services and change to backup platforms that are critical to our Customer.

Key responsibilities include -

• Resolution of incidents, problems and backup failure.
• Delivering backup infrastructure change.
• Performing data restores at customer request.
• Identifying and delivering service improvements.
• Develop the capability and skills of peers and junior engineers.

You will be empowered to identity better ways of doing things and share your ideas. You can expect to attain skills in new technologies to ensure continued growth of technical capability, with opportunities to work with all our operational teams (inc. Storage, Windows, Solaris/Linux and AIX teams) to enhance that learning.

Your experience

• 3-5 years' experience of supporting (1st & 2nd Line) backups of servers and virtual payloads.
• Good knowledge of backup and restore technologies.
• Experience of working in teams effectively.
• Proactive approach to personal workload management.
• General awareness of how incident and change is managed in an IT environment (desirable).

Your knowledge/skills -

• Use and support of any backup software and storage appliances (ideally Veritas NetBackup and HP but not mandatory).
• Use and support of backups in a VMWare environment.
• General knowledge of supporting backups on various server operating systems - Windows, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX and Solaris.

Non-technical skills and experience -

• Remote employment from 1 July 2023 to 10/12/23 (initial engagement period)
• You must be SC cleared
• You need to be willing to work OOH and at weekends on a regular basis
• You need to have good customer communication skills
• You need to be willing to work to project committed timescales
• You need to be a team player. Patience and a sense of humour will be beneficial!

Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.