Sr Subject Matter Expert (Support&Ops)

Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:

• Having sound knowledge and experience in Cohesity NetBackup 11.X.X Master and media server, Data Domain, Azure Recovery services vaults, SAN Switches configuration & administration.

• Provide exceptional backup services, prioritizing simplicity and enhancing customer experience.

• Remediate vulnerabilities by leading automated patching, OS hardening, and firmware upgrades across all Cohesity clusters, NetBackup appliances, and isolated vault architectures.

• Administer backup environments in a mixed environment of Unix, Linux and Windows servers.

• Build and deploy backup infrastructure, including managing backup repositories.

• Exceptional troubleshooting skills for backup, tape, DD, SAN SW and storage issues.

• Proficiently manage critical issues within the backup infrastructure, liaising across multiple technical towers as appropriate.

• Work independently and actively coach and develop peers, as well as participate in on-call rotations as required.

• Possess in-depth knowledge of multiple backup products, both through command line and GUI interfaces.

• Drive appropriate engagement and response from key vendors to ensure service levels for this environment.

• Adhere to established company processes, including change management, incident management, and problem management.

• Experience in managing critical backup infrastructure at scale

• Act as the final internal tier for troubleshooting catastrophic backup failures, performance bottlenecks, and recovery blockages.

• Conduct exhaustive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for repeated failures and critical Sev-1 production outages.

• Maintaining a rolling enterprise backup success tier ≥ 99%

• Manage direct developer-level ticketing escalations alongside NetBackup and Cohesity vendor support engineering teams.

• Client engagement Ability to develop operational reports.

• Architect, stand up, and manage Cohesity Clusters and NetBackup Master/Media Servers across physical, virtual, and cloud targets.

• Lead migration initiatives moving enterprise data blocks from legacy tape/appliance targets over to modernized Cohesity SpanFS clusters.

• Drive end-to-end version lifecycle changes including planning configurations, patching routines, and massive platform upgrades

• Build, audit, and sustain target policies protecting VMware vSphere, Nutanix, Microsoft SQL, Oracle DBs, and massive NAS shares.

• Establish policy governance models leveraging NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) alongside Cohesity DataProtect routines.

• Provision hybrid infrastructure bindings natively targeting AWS, Azure instances.

• Plan and direct mandatory enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) drills, documenting proof of failover/failback readiness.

• Master Server

• Media server

• Dell Data Domain

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• TS4300

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• Azure Portal

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• IBM 48 Port Switch

• IBM 24 Port Switch.