Storage Consultant - SaudiArabia

Location: Riyadh
Company Name: Accenture

Job Title: Storage & Backup Administrator

Level: Consultant

Location: Saudi Arabia

Duration: 1 year fixed term contract with a possibility of extension

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Patch installation

• Enlist local assistance when routine assistance is needed

• Production support of operating systems

• Security compliance responsibilities

• Familiar with latest data retention and storage policies and industry standards

• Backup and Restore Architecture

• Configure backup schedules

• Monitor job completion status (success and failure)

• Act as liaison with hosting vendor

• Perform analysis and resolution approach for all vulnerabilities

• Coordinate off site tape storage

• NetApp Filers (Unified Storage-NAS and SAN) Administration.

• Storage Server Building, Storage clustering & High availability

• Storage capacity planning. Experience with scripting using PERL, UNIX shell or similar languages.

• Expertise in designing and implementing Netbackup solutions for various client platforms such as Oracle, SQL, windows, UNIX.

• Expertise in performing Netbackup upgrades on Netbackup Master Servers and clients.

• Expertise in day-to-day operations on Netbackup (Netbackup Health check).

• Perform Proof of Concept (POC) testing for new storage technology products.

• Design the backup network to ensure that the required service level agreements (SLAs) for recovery are met.

• Perform root cause analysis for problems encountered

• Good working experience on Virtual and physical tape libraries with LTO2/LTO4 drives.

• Knowledge on Data domain vtl or Clariion Disk Library.

Year of Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience

Technical Skills:

Working Knowledge & experience is must

• EMC Storage Certification

• IBM Storage certification

Technical certifications:

• EMC Storage Certification (EMCSA)

• IBM Storage Certification

Other Skills (Process & Soft Skills):

• ITIL V3 Awareness / Foundation Certified

• Fluent in spoken & written English

• Arabic Language (spoken: as “Nice to Have” skill)

• Ability to communicate thoroughly through verbal and written mediums.

• Ability to observe, ask questions, listen actively, and give and accept feedback effectively.

• Organize and compile information from external and internal sources.

• Communicate effectively with both external and internal customers.

• Strong communications skills including the ability to communicate technical information in using non-technical language

• Take part in 24x7 on-call rotation

• Work out of hours evenings, nights, weekends, bank holidays at reasonable request to perform production changes

Academic Degree:

• B. E. / B.Tech./ MCA/ MSc.

• Other Graduates with Technical Certification is must